Just as during the Carter years, during the Bush years productive businesses suffered a capital deficit as money flowed into the dead money sector that is housing.

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Allison, quite unlike Republicans, Democrats and a Federal Reserve desperate to resuscitate the housing market, understands that the rush to housing was the recession for excessive growth capital flowing into the dead money sector that was housing over the productive economy.

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Far from dead, our manufacturing sector is the world's largest, with 5% of the world's population producing five times their share in industrial goods.

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Analysts who took the negative news coverage at face value and predicted weakening results for the defense sector last year turned out to be dead wrong.

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The sad point being that whatever the boom in US manufacturing it is still true that the days of sector as a source of mass employment are over, dead and gone.

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Heartened by his encounters with groups of businessmen, Abdullah called 150 members of the private sector and government together for a two-day retreat at the Dead Sea in November 1999.

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Certainly there is the dead weight of the prison bureaucracy, a Kafkaesque interleaving of public service boondoggling and private sector lobbying, whose raison d'etre is not the reduction of the prison population but its increase.

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