CONFIDENCE

Final Mich numbers were BELOW expectations at 87.7

In perspective, in 2000 the reading was near 150 ! HOW important is any reading? It is more the DIRECTION the trend is going than the reading itself.

ENERGY prices, and the NON INFLATIONARY pressure we keep hearing are NOT HERE, eating into spendable income, as WAGES stagnate.

hey, I found a pay stub from 2000, I own my company, I've had NO raise in 5 years.

I need additional employees, nor can I afford them.

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