Free Republic

NEW YORK - U.S. gross domestic product increased by 5.7% in the first quarter of 2002, the largest rise in almost two years, and overall corporate profits and employment are at all-time highs. On the other hand, it looks like L. Dennis Kozlowski cheated on his sales tax. Fearing Kozlowski and accounting woes from all over, the stock markets are down, down, down. To be sure, not all the economic news is good. The rate of unemployment, according to figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning, dropped slightly, to 5.8%, and real income levels have been fairly...