Cliff Waldman, chief executive officer of New World Economics, explains how manufacturing labor productivity is measured, and why it’s such an important metric for assessing economic health.

Omer Abdullah, founder and managing director of The Smart Cube, lays out the subtleties and complexities of making the decision on whether to bring manufacturing back from Asia to the U.S.

So manufacturing is coming back to the U.S. after all? Guess it depends on whom you ask.