Summary
Whether you're worried about keeping your job or just hesitant about taking a little vacation, this sure feels like a recession to many people.
Yet the economists who declare such things say it's not -- at least, not yet. So we spent the past several days contacting a variety of businesses in southeast Wisconsin, more than a dozen in all, and asked how the turmoil on Wall Street and uncertainty in the economy are playing out in their companies and industries.See the full content of this document
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Crisis Snags Main Street
The result: an uneven picture that shows growth and optimism in some industries but gloom in others, an unevenness that may explain why economic statistics aren't yet telling a coherent story.
RETAIL"We're playing defense" is the way Bud Bergre...See the full content of this document
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