Why High Gasoline Prices are Causing the Drop in GDP Growth
Lost in the furor over the debt crisis last week came the news that the U.S. economy expanded at an annual rate of only 0.4 percent in the first quarter and 1.3 percent in the second. As these numbers were well below what economists were expecting, the revelation that the US was not coming out of the "great recession" was quite a shock for those who have not been paying attention.
Even further down in the news stories were revisions to the older GDP numbers that had the U.S. rebounding smartly from the 2007 to 2009 recession. It seems the official
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Even further down in the news stories were revisions to the older GDP numbers that had the U.S. rebounding smartly from the 2007 to 2009 recession. It seems the official
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