What's The Biggest Threat to The U.S. Economy?
BigLaw firm DLA Piper recently surveyed more than 100 corporate clients (PDF) about their priorities for the second half of 2008 and to gauge their predictions for the business climate.
More than half of the survey respondents (53 percent) had a negative outlook on the economy. And when asked what they considered the biggest threat to the economy, nearly a third (31 percent) said a recessionary economy, nearly one-quarter (24 percent) cited inflation and/or the value of the U.S. dollar and 18 percent were most concerned about the federal budget deficit.
This made us wonder …
What do you consider to be the biggest threats to the U.S. economy?
Answer in the comments below. Our favorite answers may appear in an upcoming issue of the ABA Journal.
Read last week’s question and answers about the most outrageous juror conduct you’ve seen.
Our favorite answer from last week:
Posted by Judge Judith Chirlin: A juror appeared to be taking copious notes in a civil case. After it was over, my court attendant—who was tearing up the jurors’ notes—brought me that juror’s.
Turns out he was drawing caricatures of all of the participants in the trial. (I particularly liked the one he did of me!) But he was obviously paying attention to the evidence: both parties had testified that plainitiff had become so angry with defendant over his investment loss that he walked into the lunch room of their mutual employer and poured a pot of honey over the defendant’s head.
And sure enough—defendant’s likeness had him sitting at a lunch table with a pot of honey sitting upside down on his head, honey dripping down his face. It looked like it came right out of a Winnie-the-Pooh book!
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