Investors are expecting the next few years to be good for corporations. Plus, apple picking is in demand, manufacturing workers less so.
Investors expect a healthy economy and strength in the private sector, which is limiting the rise in corporate bond yields.
Closures and bankruptcy filings have ticked up this year despite relatively steady consumer spending.
Millions of workers lost their jobs in manufacturing. Many never returned to the labor force.
While larger conglomerates of ski resorts are able balance out a lack of snow and cold in one part of the globe with a good winter elsewhere, that’s not the case for smaller resorts.
But the gains aren’t anywhere near evenly distributed.
In Colorado, where limited supply makes apple picking — a classic fall activity — very competitive, orchard reservations open up in early winter.