Summing Up IBC ’09
Elliptical Machines | September 16, 2009
By Beth MarchantSeptember 16, 2009 – 9:30 pm Yesterday, one year after the banking collapse, Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said during a forum at the Brookings Institution that the recession was “very likely over at this point.” The unemployment rate, he added, could and probably would still rise for many months—making the economy feel sluggish even though the worst, technically speaking, was behind us.That same kind of hopeful cynicism was in evidence at this year’s IBC show, which came to an en