He was pointing to a chart illustrating the hierarchical relationship between the foreman and the worker.

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Just to drive the point home, the chart below presents the same historical relationship in Japanese data over the past two decades.

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Check out the relationship between prices and production in the accompanying chart.

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As you can see from the chart above, there is an historical relationship in the United States between rising equity yield premiums and falling growth.

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The chart above, also from Lattice Strategies, shows a very clear relationship between the fastest GDP growth countries on the left and high stock market returns.

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