Fed Official: Few Signs of Recovery (CNN.com): “Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Alfred Broaddus said Friday there were good reasons to expect the U.S. economy to accelerate, but so far there are few clear signals. ‘There are a few signs in the recently released data that the recovery may be gaining strength,’ Broaddus said in remarks prepared for delivery to the Independent Banks of South Carolina. ‘But in my view there is not much hard evidence that this is happening yet.’”