Editor, Times-Union: A short comment on the recent comedy program at the Wagon Wheel theater. In short it sucked. A few people who don’t get out much seemed to enjoy it. But the bulk of the crowd were obviously quite into ho hum. Suggestion: Stick with straight stand-up comedy next time. Second comment: Chicago’s PMI figure dropped to 48.0 which is way below a safe recession fail safe level which would be 50. In the largest cities personal incomes are dropping like a rock while housing prices and rents are soaring like a balloon. “Hey mister can you spare a quarter?” due in 2016 or soon after. Tom Metzger Warsaw, via email Editor’s Note: PMI is the Purchasing Managers Index, an economic indicator. It is a composite index of five “sub-indicators,” extracted through surveys to more than 400 purchasing managers from around the country.
