August 11, 2010
Economic news of late has been fixated on the state of our recovery. Is unemployment growing? Are companies hiring? How about the housing market - better or worse? And as usual the signs are mixed, as they have been for the 30 years I've been following economic indicators.
Yesterday Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke allowed that the pace of economic recovery has slowed. Headlines about stubbornly high unemployment would seem to back up that assessment. And who am I to disagree? After all, I read the same headlines as everyone else.
And yet: I keep seeing small signs of recovery. Real signs, tangible markers that things are getting better, if only here and there, if only fitfully. The latest: the Walt Disney Company reported better-than-expected earnings yesterday. The reason: more people going to see movies like James and the Giant Peach. I expect we will continue to see signs like this, and I remain cautiously optimistic about the US economy.
GTC
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