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To: hdl who wrote (212394)1/4/2003 2:23:07 PM
From: Les H  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258
 
The changing demographics are going to be death for American companies that rely on the old brand loyalty by middle America. The new immigrants will have no such allegiance and will have different tastes. They're closing two McDonald's near me.

Corporate Debt sales flourishing

biz.yahoo.com

this should soak up some of the liquidity.



To: hdl who wrote (212394)1/5/2003 10:01:45 AM
From: Tom M  Respond to of 436258
 
>>I'm a buy and holder, so the American car rip off is not attractive to me.<<

Bingo!

I was there when the IBM PC XT with 512k ram & the HUGE 10MB hard drive
was being purchased for $5400 by my company (monochrome of course).
I've always been waiting for Greenspan's "productivity miracle" to hit the
US auto industry. Sure's been a long wait <g>!