Lynn Says
Year-end thoughts
December 27, 2017
Today as I peruse the national news headlines, they are mainly good news. For example, The Business Insider says the holidays were a “big win” for struggling retailers as sales soared.
A couple days ago, I observed a headline that said: “The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up over 32 percent since the presidential election.”
The national unemployment rate a year ago was nearing 5 percent at 4.8. This month, the rate had dropped to 4.1 percent and the Federal Reserve is expecting that number to drop to 4 percent in 2018. Woods County has an unemployment rate of 3 percent. The lowest rate in the...
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