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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (64983)	4/2/2007 6:10:45 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

The Real Economic Threat: Weak Capital Spending Corporate caution could jeopardize job growth and consumer outlays businessweek.com What's the biggest threat to the economy? The housing slump, right? After all, therein lies the greatest potential to derail consumer spending. Well, think again. Amid all the headlines about builders' woes, sagging home prices, and shaky subprime mortgages, there's some trouble brewing in another sector, perhaps more crucial to the outlook: capital spending. ...