On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:02:26 -0500, thunder
wrote:


From an economic standpoint, however, our balance of trade deficits are
far more damaging, long term, in my mind.

Well, losing industrial capacity has caused half the trade deficit,
the other half being energy. That's a simplification of course.

Still, with all our problems,
this country is incredibly resilient, and we are heading into a
recovery. The leading indicators I was referring to, can be found he

Hope you're right. I have a somewhat jaundiced view on using the past
as a barometer for the future, but do think it will work out well,
just different. The past economy is gone.

http://www.businesscycle.com/

http://www.conference-board.org/econ...se_output.cfm?
cid=1

Whatever you prefer to look at. I don't forget that these same
prognosticators failed miserably in all the predictions they made just
1 short year ago.
I really like this C-Organizer Pro thing I have.
I just pasted this thread title into an appointment with a few clicks,
and on November 1st it will pop up.
We'll see then.

--Vic