Do you ever get the feeling that we live in a world stuck in the two-step – two steps forward and one step back?
Take the economy, for instance. Every few weeks journalists report a mixed bag: First it was announced the US economy surprisingly shrunk one-tenth of a percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. That’s your step backward.
The next day, we were told that consumer spending nudged upward two-tenths of a percent in December 2012. And most recently, economists predicted 150....