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The economies and politics of offshore production are much, much more complex than all this. In the example of Harley Davidson hats: is the company so strapped for cash? Well, yeah, actually, but that ain't it. They just figured out how much people are willing to pay for an item, and have to figure a way to maximize profit to meet that price point. Or make any profit. It's highly likely that if they were to make all of their clothes in America that there wouldn't be any profit it in it, so they wouldn't sell it.

But back to the Harmonies... I always dug them thought I've never owned one. Secretly, I want any and everything associated with Chicago to be of the utmost quality and I harbor a little resentment that the best that Chicago businesses could do was to make low-end instruments to sell at Marshall Field's.

I suspect that they're going to come in around the same price point as the Ibanez archtops, and I suspect that because of that they're not going to last very long on the market.