International Housewares Association

 Colin Powell with Tony Koltz., It worked for me : in life and leadership, 2012

p.249

  I didn't know much about the ups and downs of the housing market until 2007, when I addressed the International Housewares Association, whose members make knives, forks, plates, glasses, pots, and other housewares.  Their sales, they explained, are a leading indicator of the housing market.  If fewer knives, forks, and glasses are sold, then fewer new houses are being built.  (Divorces and new bachelors will slightly alter those numbers.)  Housewares manufactures could tell me what's happening in housing before HUD, Fannie Mae, or Freddie Mac. 

  (It worked for me : in life and leadership / Colin Powell with Tony Koltz. ── 1st ed., 1. Powell, Colin L., 2. African American generals ── biography., 3. united states ── politics and government ── 1993-2001 ── quotations, maxims, etc., 4. leadership ── united states., E840.5.P68A3  2012, 973.931092──dc23,  2012, )

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