There's a new gauge for testing San Diego County's economic waters, and its first reading shows that the temperature is growing chilly. The gauge can be found in the first volumes of the San Diego Economic Ledger, a newsletter published every two months by the San Diego Institute for Policy Research (www.sandiegoinstitute.com)
The institute was set up in recent months by businessman Steven Francis, founder of AMN Healthcare Services Inc. in Carmel Valley, the nation's largest provider of temporary health care workers.
