That is nonsense. Recent numbers confirm this and further confirm that the trend is stable, not slipping. ENR is not alone in this mischaracterization of the state of the economy in which the error is calling the slowdown in the rate of growth of the economy a slowdown of the economy to a state of negative growth. Many news outlets are making the same mistake. Such writing feels like a wish for recession.
Confidence already erodes in a diminishing economy and construction is deferred.