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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (3070)12/9/2003 8:33:58 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110194
 
However, the minimum 70.9 was in 1982.

however, if you go out two years from there, Cap-U was over 80. so there was an incredible 10-point rise over 2 yrs, signalling a strong recovery.

by contrast, if you go back two years from today, at the approximate end of the recession in 2001, Cap-U was at the same 75 level as today. thus there has been absolutely no rise in Cap-U over the two years of so-called recovery. this is unprecedented in post-war recoveries.

CI is a good source for many charts showing how pathetic this recovery is, sliced and diced a million ways...



To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (3070)12/10/2003 3:46:51 AM
From: zonder  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110194
 
Anything above 80% capacity utilization is supposed to be inflationary. I would be interested to see what the inflation was during all that time that capacity utilization hovered way above 80%...