>[Here's the guess a letter writer to the FT came up with: a US real GDP
>growth rate 1/3 less than that posted for the last two years]
Dunno how Riechebacher - who, I might add, has been predicting disaster for the better part of 20 years, maybe longer - came up with this. Real GDP growth with computers was 5.7% from 99Q2 to 00Q2; it's 5.2% without. With the chained method, components of GDP don't add up to total GDP, so you can't just subtract out computer sales.
Doug