As I have discussed, some industries may benefit in the near term from increased sales associated with the accelerated pace of replacement of obsolete computer systems, and their customers presumably will have more productive systems in place sooner than might otherwise have been the case. But, in the aggregate, preparing for the Y2K problem is likely exerting a slight drag on the US economy.
I remain solely responsible for the opinions contained herein. Introduction The title of this session is “Assessing the EU’s re-regulation effort”. To be clear from the outset, we are striving not simply for re-regulation, but for better regulation. What constitutes “better”?