Kind of odd how a report like this comes out of a site OUTSIDE of the states. Shows that our polluted MSM won't touch this type of thing with a ten-foot poll.
The Conference Board said Americans were downbeat about their current situation, but were even gloomier about the future. While the present situation index, which looks at current conditions, fell to 89.2 in March from 104.0 in February, the expectations index, which looks ahead, dropped to a 35-year low of 47.9 in March from 58.0 the previous month. The last time the reading was so depressed was in December 1973, when it registered 45.2 amid the Arab oil embargo that brought an end to the long postwar boom.
Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board's research centre, said: "Consumers' outlook for business conditions, the job market and their income prospects is quite pessimistic and suggests further weakening may be on the horizon."
www.guardian.co.uk
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[edit on 26-3-2008 by DimensionalDetective]
