On Mar 16, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Wendy Lyon wrote:
> If you're talking about the *current* trade surplus, which is at a
> record high, that's mainly due to a collapse in imports over the past
> year (since nobody's buying anything these days).
It's up, but it was in the double digits for most of the last 15 years.
> Productivity growth has slowed down a lot over the past couple years
> too, I'm not sure what statistics you're looking at.
OECD's. Negative in 2008, but way ahead of Germany from 1986 until 2007.
Doug