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To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (254565)	8/7/2003 11:23:49 AM
From: Jeff Jordan	Respond to of 436258

Ozzy, I call your raise and I double your raise.... Good stuff from Les's productivity link For business, this means that capital will become increasingly expensive over the next few years, while attractive investment opportunities are few and far between. Progress will come by trimming labor forces, and by making existing capital stock work more efficiently, reducing the amount of unused capital in the system. Price competition in domestic sectors will be intense, with a high level of bankruptcies removing excess capital stock, and many companies making money only because of the profits they are able to wring from the suddenly expanded international market as the dollar drops. Business's production capacity utilization rate, currently at a low, unseen since 1983, of 74.4 percent will descend further as the "double dip" of the economy takes hold, then begin a long slow climb back to efficient levels above 80 percent, with new investment being much scarcer than redeployment of existing investment. Mom and Pop are gone forever? And everyone in-between!