771, You are spot on. There is no loss of employment, just a shift in vocation. It is now thieves that increasingly are crawling our neighborhoods that have become the biggest vocation. Shoplifting carhopping break-n-entry burglary and armed-robbery are the skill set of our new emerging work force. Your U-Haul index accurately describes the state of the economy. There is no real need for high paid departmental bureaucrats to evaluate the economy when we have The U-Haul index.