Are Your Business Plans More Chorus Than Cantor?

From the Dallas Morning News yesterday - Outside our bubble, sobering forecasts:

• The U.S. unemployment rate will hover at 7.1 percent in 2014.
• The country won't reach full employment for 16 more years.
• For the first time since the Great Depression, more Americans think their incomes will be lower in the future than higher.  That's made us a nation of worrywarts and tightwads.The Federal Reserve's "body language" is telling the world that it has no confidence in the U.S. economy.
• The stock market is "frothy" and beginning to look overvalued.
• The one million U.S. housing starts forecast for 2014 is till 500,000 shy of a real housing recovery.
• Flat holiday sales have retailers in a panic mode and making deeper discounts earlier.

But -

• Dallas-Fort Worth is #2 in the nation in both industrial and retail construction.
• #3 in apartment building.
• #5 in office construction.