There's something brewing in the American economy.
Nobody s quite sure what it is a recession, soft landing or a mere slowdown.
Yourdon Inc. He has authored two dozen books, including the much famed Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer and Decline and Fall of the American Programmer. He is currently working on a new edition of his Modern Structure Analysis. In an interview, he spoke about the IT industry and future focus areas. The recent decision by Federal Reserve s Alan Greenspan to reduce interest rates by 0.5 percentage points does suggest a degree of official concern. You can see the signs of a slowdown from other economic indicators as well low Christmas sales or low automobile sales in December.