Halal Of An Economy We Have Here

On second thought, maybe these guys were on to something. More leading economic indicators:

The Federal Treasury isn’t the only group looking for an innovative way out of the current financial crisis. The food carts around Wall Street have also felt the markets distress.

Sayedi Abdellah met tough times by adding a free soda to his $5 chicken or lamb with rice. Business is up 30 percent, he said.

“To be honest, we’re doing better than what we were doing before things happened,” he said of the halal cart he’s run on the corner of Wall and Water streets for a year.

“If you go in there,” Abdellah said, pointing to a nearby café, “you end up paying at least $10. Now, people I never expected to see are standing here.”