Capital intensive, cyclical and low margin, steel is in the dumps.

FORBES: Beneficent Billionaire?

The weak dollar has rendered American labour more competitive, but not enough to rejuvenate low-margin, labour-intensive manufacturing in industries such as textiles, furniture or paper products.

ECONOMIST: Exports and the economy

That labor-intensive effort will lower Diamond's profit margin and could undercut a favorite firm claim: that its advice is free of self-interest because it doesn't entail hiring a platoon of Diamond techies.

FORBES: Silicon in the Snowbelt

That labor-intensive effort will lower Diamond's profit margin and could undercut one of its favorite claims: that its advice is free of self-interest because it doesn't entail hiring a platoon of Diamond techies.

FORBES: Silicon in the snowbelt

Some speculate that Ispat and other capital intensive manufacturers will be relegated to the status of being the low-margin drones of others' supply chains.

FORBES: Beneficent Billionaire?