Arizona Partnership for a New Economy
APNE Research WestTrack Report: October, 2000 | Main page

2. Samples of Verbatim Comments by Topic

Increase of Business and Money due to the Internet and Computers (19%)

• The current technology driven economic boom.

• The Internet economy.

• The Internet and e-trading have created the new economy.

• Well, I think it refers to all the high tech stuff. Everything is on computers. By this new technology, a lot of new jobs have been created. Employment is higher, but some of the wages haven’t gone up for some of the people.

• I think it refers to Internet based commerce.

• I would believe that it’s about the Internet and buying things on the Internet.

Increase in Technology/The Technology Age (17%)

• It’s technology. Improved technology, Internet and telecommunications.

• The computer age, the computer stocks…electronics, basically.

• It refers to a shift away from the industrial age to the technological age…more of a global economy.

• New and improved technology.

• The switch from traditional means of making money to high tech.

• The high tech and new stock market.

The Current Standings of the Economy (10%)

• I think they are talking about the way the country sits right now in comparison to the past.

• It’s about how the economy is doing. We’re in a good economy; the best we’ve ever had.

• I’m assuming it refers to our current financial situation.

• I would say it is the way it has been during recent years. Everyone is doing better financially.

• It refers to the economy as good. Our national debt is going down, no wars to speak of, stock market is going up, and we are better off than we were. The last 8 years have been pretty good.

The Changing of the Economy (10%)

• The change in business and the influx of e-commerce.

• The structure and changing direction of the economy.

• It refers to things getting better in the economy.

• The economy is changing.

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