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Biz Waves is a one-stop Web hub for business news and content from the South Bay region of Los Angeles County and beyond.
The primary contributor is:
Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.
You can email Muhammed at dailybreeze.com
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When I want to understand what's going on with retailers like Wickes Furniture, I occasionally call George Whalin, a prominent retail analyst and president of Retail Management Consultants in San Marcos. Here's what he said Thursday about the economy:
"I don’t think there’s any doubt that there’s a recession. . . . The recession is a result of slowing home sales, (loss of) jobs. All of the factors that go into where we got ourselves today."
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