Mini Poll summary for November

I asked the same question I have been asking for over 8 months: "How long do you believe this recession will last?" The responses for November showed an increasing trend to a longer period of time than the first few months I asked the question. There were 56% of those responding who see us going into a Depression (28%), or see it will take longer than the choices I have provided (14%) or until 2012 (14%). The most frequent choice seemed to be that we are going to go into a Depression. There were 43 people who voted in the November Poll. We start all over again now for the month of December so please vote and only once in a month. Thanks. I will be putting together a chart of the results for the year in the beginning of January for 2009.

Here's the breakdown by choice.

1 End 2009 16%
2 Mid 2010 16%
3 End 2010 5%
4 Mid 2011 2%
5 End 2011 5%
6 Mid 2012 2%
7 End 2012 12%
8 Much longer 14%
9 Depression 28%


Here's a look at all the data:
Data for December, then January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September and November:

2009 39%, 42%, 34%, 33%, 29%, 18%, 9%, 16%, 9%, 11%, 16%
2010 30%, 23%, 16%, 21%, 48%, 34%, 23%, 19%, 16%, 19%, 21%
2011 20%, 17%, 20%, 6%, 8%, 8%, 12%, 9%, 2%, 12%, 7%
2012 0%, 0%, 4%, 3%, 2%, 26%, 29%, 33%, 46%, 11%, 12%
Much Longer than the choices you have provided 0%, 0%, 10%, 12%, 0%, 11%, 14%, 12%, 11%, 39%, 14%
Depression 12%, 19%, 18%, 24%, 13%, 4%, 14%, 10%, 18%, 8%, 28%*

* November was the highest month showing concern for a Depression. It is not conducive to a positive holiday Shopping year and increased Retail Sales.


Unemployment numbers coming out for the month of November on Friday. Mist experts and pundants belueve it will drop from 10.2% to 10.0% for November. We shall see.