> info at pulpculture.org wrote:
>
> >Doug and others: Is the economy looking like it's going to tank or
> >something? We're getting this huge influx of job inquiries to the
> >Web site. Very strange for people to be so desperate as to try to
> >get work with a dinky freelancing biz.
On 4/15/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Few signs of it really. The leading indexes are looking ok,
> portending pretty much the same thing we have now, which is ok but
> not spectacular growth. The housing market has almost certainly
> peaked, and that may be bumming some people out, but it's yet to have
> any broader drag. It may, and so may 15 (or is it 16?) consecutive
> rate hikes by the Fed, but not yet. The unemployment rate is the
> lowest, and the capacity utilization rate the highest, they've been
> in 5 or 6 years.
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Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles