Take a look at what worked in the fourth quarter. If you do, you can see why I write -- right up top in Get Rich Carefully -- that the only economic metric worth following is the payroll employment number that comes out on the first Friday of every month.
First, let me say: We are bombarded with numbers. We have all sorts of them -- purchasing managers reports; retail sales; new and used home sales; durable goods; consumer confidence; inflation, both producer and consumer; Federal Reserve minutes; and the index of home pricing.
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