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In 2006 and 2007 I wrote about the recession I was convinced was looming on the financial horizon. I was certain either the first two quarters of 2008 or the second and third quarters would be recessionary.
It didn’t happen.
What is interesting however, many of the signs and symptoms at the periphery of a recession DID [...] Read more »

I like the RBC Cash Index because it seems to be constructed in a way to provide the least biased read on consumer sentiment of any index I know about. Notice I did not say it was unbiased, but the survey is taken in such a way as to minimize bias.
The index was started in [...] Read more »