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To: Doug who wrote (6380)	9/7/1998 11:41:00 AM
From: Doug	Respond to of 18016

All: For a better understanding of the GDP , here are some pertinent details. There are 4 components of the GDP. a: Consumption Spending ;56% of the GDP;(Durable goods {>3yrs life}, non-durable goods {food and clothing}, Services ) b:Investment Spending 14% of the GDP ; (non Residential{Plants & Eqpt},Residential,Buisness Inventories) c: Govt spending 17% of the GDP. d: Net Exports 13% Average sustainable GDP growth rate has been 2.5-3%. A weak GDP is first signalled by heavy activity in the Bond pits. I trust this will help to better understand the discussion on Economic growth and focus attention on the issues.

To: Doug who wrote (6380)	9/7/1998 2:43:00 PM
From: Ian@SI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

Doug, I'm sorry that you took such severe offense to my post. However, you have made some rather unusual economic claims for which I've asked you to provide the source of that belief. Instead, you've decided to take my queries as a personal attack. This is not likely to cause me to take your posts seriously. FWIW, Ian. Thread, A week ago there was a fairly interesting article in the Weekend Financial Post in the FP Review section titled "Shedding Light on Optical Fibre" [sic] by Terrence Belford. It deals, in part, with Bell Labs Fiber Optics research, the work they've done to permit fibers to carry wavelengths in the 1.3-12.7m band and that they expect significantly more bandwidth per fiber. "Potentially, we can deliver 1000 channels and eventually 5000 channels through 1 fiber. The Final puzzle left to solve is optical switching". ...and then goes on to describe Bell Labs MEMS research into ADMs based on tiny mirrors. Unfortunately FP's search engine is broken and I couldn't come up with a link. Ian.