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To: Ilaine who wrote (88461)	4/2/2001 11:13:00 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 436258

>>If you don't use chained dollars then the growth in GDP is even higher.<< that's news to me. add phony dollars that wouldn't actually be there and you actually reduce the number. ;-) i know that didn't happen initially as gdp was hyperboosted at an 80%-100%. now that this bag of worms is out, anything can happen. we can have nice reported gdp growth while the nation outputs less and less dollars. however, taking a recent short term trend and making a statement like above is terribly misleading - if such a short term trend actually does exist. please expound with details rather than statement of fact. ps - you still didn't answer the question. is there a reason? can't reconcile losing one's home due to increased productivity? ;-)