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To: chaz who wrote (6096)	9/8/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: Apollo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 54805

Chaz: I'm taking note of the general business press and business conditions in my local area. There are "help wanted" signs popping up everywhere down here...much more so than six months ago, and in the papers a lot more articles on how to "get what you're worth" from your next employer. All this is parochial of course,....anybody else getting these same "vibes"? Vibes in the Greater Boston area: Have been hitting on all cylinders here for at least 2 yrs; unemployment between ~ 2-3%; McDonalds and others are 'begging' for help, including the elderly recruited from Nursing Homes; same thing in grocery stores, lots using the elderly for bagging groceries and working the registers. Please don't misinterpret; glad to see the elderly working if they wish, but it is a measure of the shortage of young folk for employment. Having lived thru the high inflation years of the late 70s early 80s, and given that there is some resemblence now, I am surprised there isn't more inflation now. I know greater productivity/employee accounts for this, but does it account for the lid on inflation entirely? Apollo