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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (367505)1/20/2008 11:53:32 AM
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"The downside of that is that even a slight increase in demand from all those millions stresses supplies of important raw materials and finished goods."

And it makes things more fragile. Remember the rolling shortages of the 1970s? We are set up for something on a larger scale now. Imagine what would happen if there was a major crop failure in, say, corn. Drought in the corn belt or a new viral mutation could do the trick.
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