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Monday, December 1, 2008 07:21 PM
Original article: Uncle Sam needs to go shopping. Not us

Contraction Rate

Nice Article. However, note that the linked NYT article cites a 4 percent annualized economic contraction rate - not the 4 percent per quarter this article states. Hopefully things won't get that bad.

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