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To: AC Flyer who wrote (13587)	1/17/2002 10:47:25 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 74559

<In simple terms, it is bullish because in the US it now takes half as many people to make the same amount of stuff as it did 42 years ago.> Why is that bullish today?? That's old news. <<What's more, if you believe that productivity improvements in manufacturing will continue at roughly the same rate, as I do, then by 2044 only 10% of the American workforce will be employed in manufacturing and by 2086 only 5% of Americans will be employed in manufacturing. How about that! > Now THAT's new news.... why is that bullish?? DAK