The contrast with China is also interesting. Coal generation is also down so far this year in China, but electricity demand is still growing strongly.
robbieandrew.github.io/china/

If it wasn't China now, it would be India or Indonesia in a few years. As technology capacity diffuses to developing countries, the rents the West has earned from owning more advanced technology are going to decline.

No. Still a mystery to me

Something I've been thinking is that gross output is a qualitative measure, given it depends on a deflator which is based on qualitative judgement. Is that right?

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