You might be right. The downturns — the economy pulling back — always seems to happen when it is perceived that major changes are coming.

Of course, nothing ever stays down and it always seems that we do better than ever after a downturn! Buy low and sell high — when the economy goes down, that’s just a buying opportunity.

Of course, the NASDAQ peaked in March of ’00. I’d say that the recession truly started in 2000.

It may not be all that much of stretch. Elections bring a lot of uncertainty. If Hillary or Obama become president, taxes are going up. That can’t be good for some people, and in anticipation of that, they hold off on spending and risky investments.

I think recessions are self-fulfilling prophecies. If you repeat it enough, money managers will tighten up the money available to businesses so that they’ll have to lay off people and cut back on spending.

I’ll have to check out the new listing method for the NWI Blogs. Anything that can be done to help get some publicity for the Region’s bloggers is a good thing.

Hey head over to the nwiblogs site, I found a list method for voting for the blogs in NW Indiana. I grabbed it on squidoo, and it’s pretty easy to slam on a blog, I think anyone can grab it and use it actually.