If and we begin with encouraging numbers of the economy. Retail sales. According to sales the growth is as high as in the past three years. Much fuelled by discounts. Then the jobs picture the numbers of it americans filing for unemployment. According to the Labour Department jobless claims fell by 42,000. When you add it together, watch stock market sore. The dow hit another high. Before proclaiming that the u. S. Economy is back, listen to what Mark Lieberman has to say. We face hurdles going forward. At the end of the month 2. 5 million go off on unemployment insurance. The Unemployment Benefits program will end. Thats money spent, every day, by every recipient. The jobs that we have been seeing is not necessarily the higher paying jobs. In october, for example, half the jobs created were in the Retail Sector or hotel or restaurant personnel. Not career jobs or bestpaying jobs. The best thing we can say about the economy is its yofl. Theres not a particular date or statistic that sa