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To: Elsewhere who wrote (72776)2/10/2003 12:09:21 PM
From: NickSE  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
World economies are going to get much worse until they realize the only path to economic recovery is a safe US population. The US is the main consumer for all these countries and we're not going to buy anymore stuff if we under constant threat of attack. The German & French would be wise to join the US and elimate Saddam. Continued nervousness on the US people is going to bury their economies.

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German Industrial Production Dipped Sharply in December
ap.tbo.com

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - German industrial production last month posted its largest monthly drop in nearly four years, the government said Monday, the result of a slump in manufacturing and construction output.

The decline from the previous month highlights the weakness of Europe's largest economy, which many fear faces its third consecutive year of stagnation in 2003 and where unemployment has risen to 11 percent. [.....]