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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GraceZ who wrote (38815)	3/7/2002 8:53:50 PM
From: DrGrabow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

OFF TOPIC That dry wall shortage had less to do with the manufactering but had everything to do with the cost of moving it to where the building boom was occurring. Its too cheap to truck long distance, especially during a gas spike. Stories about the shortage... no mention of shipping cost. Savannah savannahmorningnews.com Dallas dallas.bizjournals.com Washington washington.bizjournals.com Salt Lake City ksl.com The realtors realtytimes.com Las Vegas lvrj.com BRICK SHORTAGE. milwaukee.bizjournals.com Gas prices in 1999.... SPIKE? eia.doe.gov Carpet also has a 1000% mark up. I was told this by the two wonderful guys who installed mine, after the fact of course Installers? I'd rather talk to the retailer. And I used to do a lot of work for one of the biggest home builders in the country and I can assure you they do not buy their basic materials from a Home Depot, they buy their supplies directly and in bulk. Most contractors aren't big fishes but, like most small businessmen, they buy from the likes of Home Depot, Lowe's, 84 Lumber, etc.... We deal with contractors as well and I don't know of anyone dealing directly with Weyerhauser, U.S. Gypsum, GE, etc... Let's talk about supplies: most nails are manufactured in China. How about power tools? Makita (Japanese) and Milwaukee (Atlat Copco Group-Swedish) are major suppliers of power tools. Foreign companies products are featured alongside American products and, in some cases, are the only option. Your Dad is in the wrong biz. That's my father-in-law (sorry about the mistake) and I'm not going to argue with a multi-millionaire about his profit margin. Anyway... all I'm saying is that everything you buy has some connection to world wide trade as well as the fluctuations in currency. You may think you're buying American but in some, if not most, cases you are involved in the global economy. Sorry for the OT. Last post on the subject.