The Dow Jones industrial average, hovering near 11,000, is up 70 percent in the past 13 months, and auto sales in the first quarter were up 16 percent from 2009.
Consumer interest in the issue has magnified in the past five years, along with interest in eating locally grown and organic foods, said organic Valley's Siemon.
There was a limit to how much the new body could do, and though it was much faster than his old level-flight record, it was still a limit that would take great effort to crack.
The implication is a sharp decline in global trade, which has plunged partly because oil-producing nations can't afford to import as much as they used to.