Welcome to the first of two daily dispatches written by ISHN magazine from the Mile High City, where the American Society of Safety Engineers is holding its annual meeting.
The national economic news wasn’t good on Friday, when the U.S. unemployment surprised economists, and certainly President Obama, by jumping up a percentage point with employers adding far fewer jobs than anticipated. Consumer confidence has dropped again, and in a global market, including the global safety market, China and India’s economies are cooling off and the fate of the Euro is up in the air.