"Even though there's some excess capacity out there, it's closing so rapidly there could be some pressures, " Wesbury says.
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.
The initiative, leveraging the City of Seattle's excess fiber capacity, the expertise of Gigabit Squared, and the community leadership of The University of Washington, aims to stimulate business opportunities, spur advancements in health care, education, and public safety, and enhance quality of life for the residents and businesses of Seattle.
ENGADGET: Gigabit Squared heading high-speed fiber and wireless internet initiative in Seattle
Mead Smoothing out the cycles Thanks to excess capacity and Asia's financial collapse, the price for pulp has fallen to about half its 1995 level.
To everyone else, particularly those laborers considered "excess capacity, " the economy's fragile recovery took a big step back.
And given all the stores that are still closing doors, it's clear that some of the excess capacity from the go-go years is still around.
Yet Main.net and its handful of competitors still face a potential showstopper: tremendous excess capacity paired with the public's unwillingness to pay up for zippy connections in the home.
So China has come to depend on exports, especially to the United States, to absorb that excess capacity -- something U.S. consumers were happy to do especially over the past decade.
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.
Saudi engineers have been working on several big projects that could boost the nation's output by 1.3 million barrels a day--more than the expected increase in global demand next year--but the secretive nation is "likely to keep its political tool, excess production capacity, close to its chest until it has a new U.S. president to win over, " Edward Morse writes.
Elsewhere, excess capacity, uncertainty over federal regulation and taxes, and economic weakness abroad are discouraging U.S. capital spending.
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