On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Alan Lukachko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An article on the National Retail Federation website suggests that the > number of TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units) of container traffic ended a > 4 > month slump in December 2007. It also suggests increased traffic over the > next 3 months compared to 2007 is in the cards. This measure of TUEs looks > like the modern day equivalent of rail car loadings, which was and > probably > still is used as a harbinger of economic activity. The weekly rail traffic > report shows a decrease of 2.3 percent in January 2008 compared to 2007. > Bad > weather in the east was part of the reason for the decline but so was a > decline in lumber and coke traffic. Still it looks like the good old > American consumer will keep the world out of recession. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I think that when the first round of rate hikes hit the adjustable loans this spring and summer then America will get the bitch slap the "markets" have been afraid of for the last 3 months. Suddenly Americans will look at debt and realize that it sucks. I am guessing that those checks you will receive late spring will go against debt instead of just will full spending. I'd love to see a count of how many of those containers hit customs ports and how that # will change over the last 5 years of this decade. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
