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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (43360)	3/8/2001 7:53:12 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Cary, Forbes on Sweden: >Is Sweden a bloated welfare state? Or a People's Republic of Entrepreneurs? The answer is that it's a mixture of both. But the entrepreneurial part of the mix is rapidly gaining ascendancy. One yardstick is the number of business startups. They averaged 29,000 a year between 1984 and 1989 and 36,000 between 1994 and 1999, an increase of nearly 25%.< forbes.com The article is pertinent to your discussion. I won't participate. Gottfried