It's funny to discuss this when we just had an 80-degree day yesterday, but the recent reports showing the economy grew at a snail's pace in the first quarter of 2015 were blamed to some degree on the terrible winter weather we had, just as the contraction we endured in Q1 2014 was also blamed in large part on a tough winter.
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The economic snow job
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It's funny to discuss this when we just had an 80-degree day yesterday, but the recent reports showing the economy grew at a snail's pace in the first quarter of 2015 were blamed to some degree on the terrible winter weather we had, just as the contraction we endured in Q1 2014 was also blamed in large part on a tough winter.