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Japan and China have enormous excess capacity and nowhere to go now but to our shores.
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It just does not make sense to believe that they have excess production capacity but that it somehow does not fit with the worlds refining capacity.
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Canada and Mexico have little excess capacity left.
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If parents are to have genuine choice there must be excess capacity, and this is expensive.
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But as Stephen King, the chief economist at HSBC, points out, that link seems to have gone, perhaps because of excess capacity at home, or because China's increasing presence in world trade pushes the prices of manufactured goods and labour down.
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Even as steel companies in Europe, Asia and Latin America have joined up, American firms have remained stubbornly apart, resulting in excess capacity and scale inefficiencies.
ECONOMIST: American steel
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Although cuts at GM and Chrysler have removed some (though not enough) excess capacity in America, not a single car factory in Europe has closed so far.
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European automakers have more than a dozen plants worth of excess factory capacity, with new plants still under construction in Central Europe and more being built in Russia.
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Lately, the bosses of some of these firms have taken to speaking about the industry's excess capacity as if this were an affliction visited upon them from outer space, rather than the product of their own investment decisions.
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If economies perk up and a rate cut turns out to have been unnecessary, it can be reversed: with ample excess capacity, the risk of inflation taking off is low.
ECONOMIST: The world economy
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None of this excess capacity is likely to be shut down quickly, because cash-strapped firms have an incentive to keep factories running, even at a loss, to generate income.
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The question: Why have the prices of these hard assets risen so rapidly despite high unemployment, weak demand, and excess capacity in the economy?
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