Manufacturing capacity utilization – the share of the nation’s productive base that’s actually being used – is a widely watched measure of the manufacturing sector’s health. The historic average is about 80.45 percent (represented by the pink horizontal line). Therefore, the figure for the 1990s expansion, shown in Chart Nine, looks good.

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