japan industrial production

An recent economic blog posted several charts showing both positive and negative economic and sentiment survey data showing how optimism about the economic recovery is gaining ground.  Taken in its entirety, the data shows that the global economic downdraft is easing and certain generally leading indicators show signs of a possible recovery beginning.  The challenge is understanding exactly how sure the leading edge data may be in forecasting an ending to the recession.  Wall Street started talking last week about the possibility that the official end to the recession would b