US economy turning?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jan 3 09:24:37 PST 2002


Barry DeCicco wrote:


>I'm amazed at the fact that these blindly optimistic
>fools just keep pumping it out.

There's some evidence in the numbers, not just hopes - higher confidence, lower jobless claims, higher manufacturing numbers, still-strong house and car sales, a not-as-bad-as-feared Xmas season, etc. It's far from conclusive, but there's not much point in denying what's there.

Doug



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