This article gave me a chuckle http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/112150/signs-economy-is-on-the-upswing. Supposedly, since people are drinking more lattes and eating deserts the economy is on the up and up.
read this article by one of the same authors… this just proves that these guys are a joke.
http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/is_a_recession_coming_070912.html