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Buried in the investing reading list

Found these gems in my reading list.  If our foresight was just half as good as our hindsight we could all be rich!  – WD0AJG

From the

REFLECTING BACK ON 2010

by Consumer Metrics Institute

By Consumer Metrics Institute

Reflecting back on 2010, we can offer a number of observations directly from our data:

– GDP growth rates can be significantly impacted by non-consumer line items. Manufacturers building inventory, export growth, increased governmental spending and (counter-intuitively) consumer cut-backs on imported goods have all increased the GDP during portions of 2010 even as “real final” consumer commerce remained relatively flat.

– This recession was not a shared experience. Some consumers were especially hard hit by the downturn, just as they may have been

“And Now the Rest of the Story – “Buried in the investing reading list