Stumbling Along

Published October 28, 2013 1:38pm ET



Some good news about the economy might make what promises to be the unending glitches of Obamacare easier to endure. But the latest is not encouraging, with Bloomberg reporting:

Factory production in the U.S. rose less than forecast in September …Output at factories rose 0.1 percent after a revised 0.5 percent gain in August that was smaller than initially estimated, figures from the Federal Reserve showed today in Washington.  

The slowdown is bad news in the general sense, though you might be okay with it if your prospects are keyed to continued “easing” by the Fed.  The White House, especially, will find the news dismaying since, as Timothy Aeppel writes at the Wall Street Journal:

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