Is weak dollar fueling high-end audio export boom?

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Thu, 05/15/2008 - 8:46am

Back in the day, we built great cars and the best TVs. And our advanced engineering was the envy of the world.

That was a long time ago.

Today "world-class" design and manufacturing is mostly sent off-shore to Europe and Asia. American companies market and distribute products made somewhere else.

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