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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: arun gera who wrote (37855)8/14/2005 12:42:08 AM
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I don't know exactly how manufactured products are counted. If GM assembles a car in USA and gets most of its parts from other countries, does the car that leave the factory be counted in the manufactured goods count or it is (car-imported parts) that gets counted? If former then 12 fold does not really measure true productivity.

Thats a very good point. Dell is considered a "manufacturer", and indeed Dell is that (because there is no such thing as a manufacturer that is really an "assembler" of asian parts), but don't forget that every component of the assembly is built in asia, this is all the PC boards, monitors and power supplies. A stark contrast from the last manufacturing boom we had, in the 50s - the auto segment- where components such as Delco parts created a boom in and of themselves.

We better hold on to software in the west. We have it now.
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