He predicted the U.S. economy will continue to grow at about 3% over the next few years now that the country’s financial structure has been corrected.
A bright spot the experts see for grower-shipper-exporters is the improving lifestyles in emerging countries. China and India brought “as many as 1.5 billion persons from subsistence level to culturally defined middle income” in the past decade, he said, adding that millions of families now enjoy the luxury of home refrigerators.
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