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...Allen Sinai, chief global economist at Primark Decision Economics, sees the Internet as having unleashed powerful competitive forces ?- new efficiencies in the way corporations do business ?- that may have changed the rules an awful lot. "The Internet structural change is a very big one, in the class of the railroad, the airplane, the automobile or the printing press," he says. "It should increase productivity growth and lower product prices. It could be the wild card for an inflationless prosperity." In other words, increased competitiveness among U.S. corporations with Net-connected companies around the globe could make the business world...
...taxpayers, who put up the money in the first place? Or should it be used to pay down the $5.6 trillion national debt and shore up wobbly Medicare and Social Security funds? "This is a wonderful problem for the U.S. to have," says Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics...
...previous month. And the prices of raw materials like oil and copper, on average, are at their lowest in decades. This is not the stuff of sudden price hikes in consumer items. "It's beyond me how anyone can be worried about inflation," economist Allen Sinai at Primark Decision Economics says flatly. So exactly what do these masters of the universe discern...
...late summer last year "we told our clients, 'Take all your money out of Asia. Sell short,'" recalls Allen Sinai, chief global economist of Primark Decision Economics, a forecasting and consulting firm. In its worldwide model portfolio, it left only 5% for Japan. Says Sinai: "We doubled the allocation to Japan two months ago and put allocations back into South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore." Though many economists are dubious about how soon and how strongly Japan can recover from a long period of stagnation and now recession, Sinai pronounces himself "somewhat positive" on the outlook, at least...
Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics, a prominent forecasting and consulting firm, is close to Reaser on overall numbers; he predicts 1999 GDP growth of 2% to 2 1/4%. But his tone is considerably less cheery. Many economists, he notes, would consider a 2.5% increase "a trend rate of growth"--that is, roughly what the U.S. could expect to average over a long period. Sinai, however, belongs to a "new economy" school that believes rising productivity makes a 3% annual average possible. Thus he views next year's likely increase to be significantly below potential--perhaps meriting...