" Maybe business really is improving. Our furniture refurbishing business says they're busy. A carpet installer says he's working more hours again and he had been telling people that he couldn't pay them until he got paid. An accountant is putting up porch on his house. He says it's costing thousands of dollars less than it would -- cost a few years ago. Fortunately at least when prices come down there is demand that the new lower price. May -- that changes in operations that businesses have been making will start to pay off. A business owner who runs infomercials. Says he's reducing his advertising though. Because the rates to run he shows have started going up again. I'm Joe Connolly for The Wall Street Journal."