Dan Dorfman: Will the Real Economy Please Stand Up?

Unlike some of the people you see in my HuffPost writings, I am not an economic expert. Like you, I read the financial pages, watch the financial shows, scan some internet sites and try to use my noodle to make sense out of the wildly conflicting and, at times, seemingly insane economic opinions.

That conjures up a great dilemma, though. With more and more economic experts coming out of the woodwork — both on Wall Street and in Washington — who are we supposed to believe?

How about President Obama, who tells us “we are moving in the right direction and the economy is getting stronger by the day?”

Or New York Times columnist Paul Krugman who insists “we’re in early stages of a third depression?”

Or maybe the National Bureau of Economic Research, which recently told the nation the 18-month recession ended in June?

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