The job market is firm, the outlook for hiring remains firm and hourly wages will pick up. Wages will grow enough to keep consumer spending up.

Some see the widespread weakness outside transportation as discouraging. But orders are still running far above average given the last few months of increases.

Housing has peaked, and from here it's only downhill. It's going to take some of the wind out of the sails of consumer spending, but it won't choke off consumption.

The insurance payments are going to go away. The outlook remains very bleak.

Wages, import prices, bottlenecks in shortages in the employment market

The photographic market remains a $5 billion market, still,