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Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:00 AM

As promised, an economic stimulus

Americans boosted their shopping in May. What happened to all those well-meaning promises to pay down debt and sock away savings?
Andrew Leonard

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  • Thursday, June 12, 2008 02:04 PM

    too little, too late?

    Is it possible that by the time the checks arrived people looked at the amount, then at the tens of thousands of dollars their house values had fallen, the price of gas, the enormous credit card debt they had amassed, and said 'the hell with it' and went to the mall?

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