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Which is how you get to the dow today where it lost 129 points, 5. 3 of the nasdaq nose dive 1 . But the first two weeks of earnings season things were pretty straightforward sure this economy might be slowing down, but the consumer was doing so great backed by a strong job market, higher stock prices and i have to tell you, it was offsetting any industrial weakness hallelujah. This week its a totally different story. The markets no longer on its meds while twothirds of our economy is consumer oriented indeed, the other third has gotten so bad so fast its crying out for some kind of government intervention. Thats what caused todays weakness because the nonconsumer economy is plain worrisome. Tonight were speaking to electric power thats the largest Transmission Power Company in the whole country. If youre trying to get a read on the economy, theres Nothing Better ....