摘要：As former Nixon economic advisor Herbert Stein once said, things that can’t go
on forever usually don’t. That is the spirit in which we turn again to the task
of projecting the economic future of the Anderson and Muncie metro for the
coming year. Logic and reason say that the long, painful decline in these
medium-sized cities, which began in earnest in the mid-1990s and continues to
this day, cannot continue indefinitely. Yet the forecast of another down year in
2006 for each of these economies, in the light of current developments,
continues to be the most reasonable forecast.
