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Sailing into uncertainty: economic impact? experts say it won''t be anything like 1991.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 27-JAN-03
Format: Online - approximately 686 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
As thousands of sailors and Marines left port and San Diego for a possible conflict in the Middle East, they left a great deal behind--family, friends, community.

They may be leaving something else, however--an economic vacuum that will ripple through San Diego County the longer they're gone. There's no hard economic data to go by just yet, and any early evidence is largely anecdotal, but economists and employers notice a change.

While the local situation resembles 1991 in ways, economists say if circumstances turn to war, domestic factors ensure this will not be a repeat of the Gulf War.

The most dramatic...

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