Articles of category "economic predictions"

There are thousands of predictions at the beginning of each year. These predictions can be about anything, global warming, technology, births and deaths...just about anything you could possibly think up. But when it comes to the United States economy, it's just about anyone's guess. Oil prices are high on everyone's list to track and trace, as are the results of what is happening due to the recent storms in the south. What will they come up with next?

Economic predictions are not pretty these days. Every day under the Bush administration the chasm grows. Slowly in the United States, the middle class is disappearing, it's being consumed by bad economic planning, it's being devoured by an upper one percent that gets richer by the day as the lower class grows rapidly, rank and file, accepting its abandoned fate.