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Re:A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy by frozenport on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:22AM (#13080531)
I think you need to normalize by population to get a sense for how much, we as a people, are producing.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(industrial+production...

Here the story is that our product has peaked around 2000, and has been doing down ever since.

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Re:A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy by dsp1234 on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:51AM (#13080842)
Except that story would not be true, as it clearly goes up, and has a higher peak after 2000.
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Re:A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy by frozenport on Thursday December 01, 2016 @01:43PM (#13082146)
Yeah around 2007, but this was relatively short lived.

At the end of the day the perception that economic output is dropping (slope) is valid if you consider it on a per capita basis. Now I'd you consider that the jobs and profits aren'disturbed equally, you can see why Trump won.

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