By Gerald Daniels An article in our local newspaper this past week carried this headline: Sales of Big-Ticket Items Soar. When businesses and consumers purchase the so called big ticket items like homes, cars and equipment it is a strong indicator that the economic upturn has begun. According to Chief Economist, Nigel Gault at IHS Global Insight “it looks like we’ve hit rock bottom and we’re slowly trying to dig our way out.” The majority of our country and the world for that matter have been waiting desperately for those words to give them some peace of mind. Yet the… Read More