On Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 20:40:53 (-0800) Eugene Coyle writes: >Why wouldn't the cheaper natural resource, as an input to the productive >process, lower the cost of manufactured goods and make them MORE >competitive with other nations?
Exactly my question. As I understand it, the US has benefited very much from having cheap natural resources, which it has (had?) used primarily to fuel its industrialization. Bill
