Consumer goods orders and consumer expectations provide clues about future consumer spending. Vendor performance reflects the percentage of companies reporting slower deliveries. Contracts for new plant and equipment reflect business investment spending plans. Building permits lead residential construction activity. The interest rate spread does a nice job of predicting lending.
Stock prices reflect consensus expectations about future earnings and overall business conditions.
And changes in the money supply measure banking system liquidity. They say Patience is a virtue. The basic requirements of the Sunshine Law are that meetings of a board or commission be open to the public, reasonable notice of such meetings be given and minutes of the meeting be taken. According to the Florida Attorney General, a city commissioner who publishes an anonymous newsletter using an e-mail address to receive feedback violates the Sunshine Law when the newsletter is sent to and feedback is received from fellow commissioners. The fact that the newsletter is anonymously written does not matter.