Agreed. Which puts the claim that 'decreased competition in markets from flattened economies of the losers helped American manufacturing', in an equally foggy light.
What's very sad is when you read a little further on about the USA economic decline after 1970 to today...
Anyway thank you for letting me know I was being a dingus!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_United...