| 【文章摘要】 A couple of issues ago, I wrote about how we are willing ourselves into recession even as the economic indicators point in a different direction. In recent months, we have studied a large variety of economic indicators as we prepared to launch our AVP Pulse Index in cooperation with our sister publication, Rock Products. Like so many periods in the past, this is an anxious time in the economy as we try to understand its direction, and despite the positive and robust indicators, worry abounds about our economic future and the threat of sliding into recession. |