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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (107344)	1/14/2012 7:08:36 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I am really scared........stocking up with water, a rifle and canned goods.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (107344)	1/15/2012 1:31:20 AM
From: Sr K	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

It's nearly 4 months since the ECRI called the recession to its private clients. How much do those subscriptions cost? Background On September 30th, ECRI publicly announced that the U.S. is tipping into a recession, a call the Institute had announced to its private clients on September 21st. Here is an excerpt from the announcement: Early last week, ECRI notified clients that the U.S. economy is indeed tipping into a new recession. And there's nothing that policy makers can do to head it off. ECRI's recession call isn't based on just one or two leading indexes, but on dozens of specialized leading indexes, including the U.S. Long Leading Index, which was the first to turn down — before the Arab Spring and Japanese earthquake — to be followed by downturns in the Weekly Leading Index and other shorter-leading indexes. In fact, the most reliable forward-looking indicators are now collectively behaving as they did on the cusp of full-blown recessions, not "soft landings." (Read the report here.) Read more: articles.businessinsider.com