"I can't find a recession in the data, but I can find it everywhere else you read or hear about the economy. But I just don't see it."

That was the key reading from Marci Rossell, expert economic speaker and forecaster, and former CNBC chief economist, who delivered her take on the economy before a packed crowd at the CREW Network annual conference Sept. 22 in Chicago.

"There are indications such as companies saying that they are going to lay off workers, but saying it and doing it don't mean the same thing," she said.

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