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10 reasons we are in even more trouble than the 9.5% unemployment rate

By: Myles, July 14th, 2009

The infamous NYC real estate developer Mort Zuckerman has a compelling article in todays Wall Street Journal, outling the 10 reasons that there is more trouble ahead:
 #1: June’s total assumed 185,000 people at work who probably were not. The government could not identify them; it made an assumption about trends. But many of the mythical jobs are […]

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Leading Indicators, Still Lagging

By: Myles, March 18th, 2009

The Architecture Billings Index, which is compiled from a monthly survey of architecture firms around the U.S., was up a modest two (2) points in February 2009,  but down six (6) points from a year earlier, pointing to a continued lack in demand for design services.
The February 2009 rating was 35.3, up from the historically low […]

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Trends or Red Herrings: What Is Our Future?

By: Myles, April 16th, 2008

Recently in SeekingAlpha, the noted trend tracker of the financial markets, we see a variety of troubling signs that things are starting to snowball, in a negative direction. Are they real or are they just red herrings? This post is an attempt at an academic, objective overview. What do you think? How do you read […]

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