It's clear that even if Q4's numbers are negative, Q1's aren't in yet, and so we don't currently have two negative successive quarters of GDP. So we are in a potential recession, not a real one - and that's why I always put "(potential) recession" in my posts.
"Americans' productivity, a key measure of rising living standards, slowed to a 2.2 percent rate of growth in the last three months of 2000 as the economy weakened.
Growth in productivity - the amount of output per hour of work - during the October-December quarter followed a 3.0 percent rate in the third quarter, the Labor Department said Tuesday."
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Sorry, no recession last quarter. As for the odds of Q1 and Q2 being negative-very,very, very small.
"Recessions in the CORPORATE world = RAISE CAPITOL TIME"
Larger Corporations aways set aside a cash position to hedge against any economical downturn. They do not start doing it when the bad times are here though, it is an ongoing process. They have to because there is no way of predicting world events which may effect our U.S. economy.
As for for the P4-
"It's actually more interesting to see the Intel optimisation than it is the AMD - because based on this, one would suspect that 3D games which use DirectX 8 and the GeForce 3 on a Pentium 4 platform would vastly outscore games running on the same platform but with an equivalent AMD chip.
Memory bandwidth limitation may even become something of a moot point; after all, the Pentium 4 isn't exactly low on this front. "
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I would say Intel is well on the way to prosperity.
"Americans' productivity, a key measure of rising living standards, slowed to a 2.2 percent rate of growth in the last three months of 2000 as the economy weakened.
Growth in productivity - the amount of output per hour of work - during the October-December quarter followed a 3.0 percent rate in the third quarter, the Labor Department said Tuesday."
News
Sorry, no recession last quarter. As for the odds of Q1 and Q2 being negative-very,very, very small.
"Recessions in the CORPORATE world = RAISE CAPITOL TIME"
Larger Corporations aways set aside a cash position to hedge against any economical downturn. They do not start doing it when the bad times are here though, it is an ongoing process. They have to because there is no way of predicting world events which may effect our U.S. economy.
As for for the P4-
"It's actually more interesting to see the Intel optimisation than it is the AMD - because based on this, one would suspect that 3D games which use DirectX 8 and the GeForce 3 on a Pentium 4 platform would vastly outscore games running on the same platform but with an equivalent AMD chip.
Memory bandwidth limitation may even become something of a moot point; after all, the Pentium 4 isn't exactly low on this front. "
Link
I would say Intel is well on the way to prosperity.
