Bernanke Vs. Retail Sales
The new retail sales report indicates that the economy is not pulling out of it nose dive. According to the Commerce Department, U.S. retail sales dropped a seasonally adjusted 1.1% in March. Economists thought the number would be up .2%.…
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According to MarketWatch, “This looks like something of a reality check after a run of upside data surprises,” wrote Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist for High Frequency Economics.
Fed chief Ben Bernanke seems to see things differently, certainly more positively.
According to Bloomberg, Bernanke said today, “Recently we have seen tentative signs that the sharp decline in economic activity may be slowing, for example, in data on home sales, homebuilding and consumer spending, including sales of new motor vehicles.”
As head of the central bank, he needs to get out more.
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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.
TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.
McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.
