Commercial Printing Outlook -- Build Up in Down Time

The public face of the problem is major banks having to be bailed out, people losing their homes and auto industry chief executives calling on Washington, DC, hat in hand. To economists, though, it is the negative trend in traditional economic indicators—such as consumer spending, housing prices and unemployment rates—that tell the tale. “Those numbers have consistently been coming in much weaker than expected,” Paparozzi says.