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I really like how it’s all about the hurricanes. If only Obama had been fortunate enough to have two hurricanes hit right after each other. We’d all be driving Rolls Royces by now!
Also, having done a not-small-amount of supply chain planning, I can honestly say no matter what you’re talking about, the supply chain is longer than a month.
Gee, it seems like winning to me.
Thanks, JcTPatriot. This is a pleasant diversion from the awful news of the day.
Manufacturers are benefitting from businesses who are happy to have the Trump Administration taking the government boot off their necks.
Things are getting better. I am in a service industry. IT support to various companies. I see economic changes in my A/R. Payment times are reduced. Whole payments instead of partials. New projects being planned before end of year to get tax deductions on profits. These are things I have not seen during the Obama years where the strategy was stretch payments and only maintenance projects. Time are a changing. I am cautiously optimistic. I hope Trump and team can keep it going.
As I replied to my colleague at ISM National, we get results! I compile the local survey for Western Washington, as well as contributing to the National survey for my company. A spirit of optimism is creeping up on the economy.
Any “unofficial” numbers you can share to cheer us up? I mean, all I have to do is look at my 401(k) and my optimism goes up. :-)
That is what has lifted the stock market.
The monthly ISM report is the best single indicator of current economic activity in the world. I have been doing the Western Washington report since 1999, and I have expanded the list of entities who receive our data by at least 10X. National moves markets regularly, in both directions. Last February, I happened to be in Phoenix for a Hillsdale College function, so I was able to drop in on the folks who are responsible for the National report. They are wonderful people, and do a great job. They follow up by email and phone to make sure that all the National respondents submit their surveys.
Thanks for bringing this to attention.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Great work, @jctpatriot! Where and when should we schedule the Ricochet group hug? Will it take a year or two years of consistently good numbers before a certain faction admits the Trump boom is real?
That is not going to happen. They best you are going to get (and that I have already heard) is that the bump is not because of Trump but because of a lack of Obama. Basically this bump would occur to anybody that became President once Obama left office.
Well, anybody with an (R). I don’t think Hillary would have gotten such a bump.
Wooooah! Let’s not go crazy here. Kasich too? I’m not so sure slashing regulations will get him into the pearly gates.
Utterly lacking science, but…
I see so many hand-lettered “help wanted” signs that I suspect that they’ve run out of the fancy printed ones.