THE RECESSION MAY have extremityed ...

THE RECESSION MAY have extremityed in March, but the economy hasn't completely escaped its grip. In October, consumer confidence lay prostrate to its lowest level since 1993 Businesses remain cautious, waiting for the right time to purchase new equipment, expand their inventories, and hire novel workers. Economic growth has slowed, raising be of importance tos about stagnation.

"What's really happened here is that the economy have the appearanceed to be coming together nicely, and then the economy clearly hit a series of unforeseen shocks" says NAHB chief economist David Seiders, citing those make uneasys at the NAHB's fall construction forecast conference: the aftereffects of terrorism; Wall