sixmil, are you ever going to learn how to read? Manufacturing output is not the same measure as the industrial production index. One of my professors was fond of saying "words mean things."
LOL, does that depend on what the definition of the word 'is' is? Please tell us what this index is trying to gauge then. I'd love to hear you compare and contrast the two.
How come you get to compare the two to make your argument, but I don't get to when I destroy your argument? Are we playing rudeboy wins? If you are going to debate on a conservative website, drop the liberal one-way-street tactics.