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To: gregor_us who wrote (13798)	5/13/2004 12:57:03 PM
From: AK2004	Respond to of 110194

give me a break or rather show me the numbers......

To: gregor_us who wrote (13798)	5/13/2004 12:58:14 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

I'd say it began close to the first of the year -- certainly masked in the GDP numbers and elsewhere by 1) fudging and 2) government expenditures imagine what GDP would look like now without all those expenditures. GDP is the wrong measure of economic activity anyway.

To: gregor_us who wrote (13798)	5/13/2004 1:50:16 PM
From: russwinter	Respond to of 110194

Appears the consumer, like the market is crossing over the proverbial "200 day moving average": SPX: 200 MA is 1078 Dow: 10,020 COMP: 1941 NDX: 1415 Consumer Index Down to 108.1 Rasmussen Consumer Index Today 108.1 Yesterday 109.5 Week Ago 112.2 Month Ago 114.3 RasmussenReports.com Thursday May 13, 2004--The Rasmussen Consumer Index was down another point-and-a-half on Thursday to settle at 108.1. That's the fourth straight daily decline and represents the lowest reading in six weeks (since April 2). In other words, the economic confidence of Consumers has fallen back to levels that existed before the last two employment reports. Those reports showed more than 600,000 net new jobs created. The Consumer Index, which measures the economic confidence of American consumers on a daily basis, is down four from a week ago, down six from a month ago and down six from three months ago.