[applemac_g4]

A successful protected market: America for the first 150 years or so of it's history. The EU today. China today. All of you who are pointing out how quickly China is modernizing and how wealthy they are becoming as a nation - keep in mind that their attitude towards free trade is strictly a one way street that involves importing US dollars in exchange for slave-labor exports.

The same thing held true for Japan during its two decades of success.

[Torie]

You had better hope that China and India are getting more productive rapidly, or Gen Xer's and the younger Boomers are going to have to defer retirement. Someone is going to have to produce the goods when about a third of Americans and particularly Europeans, are retirement age. Jeremy Siegel just wrote an article on it. If you are interested, I will post a link.