Can N.H. Weather the Wall Street 'Hurricane'? State is Faring Better, But the Numbers Aren't Pretty (Economy‪)‬

Amid the financial market meltdown of September, plenty of people have been asking whether the turmoil on Wall Street will be affecting the economy down here on the Main Streets of the Granite State. It's too soon to tell, of course, but it could be that the question should be turned on its head: Is Wall Street feeling the ramblings that have been going on for quite some time at the ground level? "It's like a hurricane without the weatherman," said Russ Thibeauh, president of Applied Economic Research in Laconia. "It's truly a mess, but we don't know how big a mess, and we don't know how long it is going to be a mess, and we don't know if we are going to make it through it."