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To: bentway who wrote (370379)	2/8/2008 10:04:39 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573988

The shadow of Japan hangs over the American economy these days. The United States is sliding into a housing-driven downturn, economists say, just as it also appears to be losing some of its global edge from the productivity-enhancing gains driven by the technology investments of recent decades. For Japan, experts point out, the housing bubble burst just as the rise of China as an export power hurt Japanese manufacturers. The similarities are few and the differences significant.