Diane Gerdes's (dianegerdes) Blog

  How many trips to the mall did you make during the holidays?  We all were shopping for clothes, furniture and taking advantage of those awesome bargains on anything electronic according to the release of the Commerce Department's December key retail sales report.  And after shopping we all went...

2007 comes in with a......Economic Update Was it a bang or a whimper?   Today's employment numbers reflects that the economy is doing just fine, thank you.  The number of jobs created in December was the biggest monthly increase of 2006 and November's jobs were also stronger than the previous est...

Over the past 10 days I have been reading and gathering articles for the highly anticipated end-of-the year economic update.  Before Christmas I could not bring myself to write about the gloom and doom indicated by the people in the know (soothsayers) for 2007. 2006 was supposed to be the year fo...