Tuesday, March 27, 2007

How Confident is Business?

Business is ordering less and less new "stuff". Here is a chart of new orders, seasonally adjusted. The black line is total orders. The red line is the percentage change from year ago levels.

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Transportation orders can really skew these numbers, so let's take them out of the graph. The same color scheme applies:

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