From an article in Yahoo finance,  “…a 0.7 percent fall in manufacturing output, which pushed the operating rate at the nation’s factories down to 67.4 percent of capacity last month, the lowest level on records that go back to 1948. ”

If anyone tells you the economy is not slow…

see: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Industrial-output-drops-in-apf-14648351.html