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Old 01-08-2008, 03:31 PM   #261 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bkkandrew View Post
^As Brit somehow failed to copy and paste the next sentance of the WSJ article, I will do the honours:

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Newly revised data showed for the first time that the economy contracted at a 0.2% rate in the final three months of 2007, raising the prospect that a recession ...
Link: Free Preview - WSJ.com

So we are left wondering if Brit was trying to mislead everyone, or if he simple doesn't/cannot read the contents of documents he copies and pastes to the board...
Not to get into the middle of this or anything but according to the artical the US economy shrunk in the last quarter of '07 (down 0.2%), but grew in the first (0.9%) and second quarters (1.9%) of '08, right?

So one down quarter followed by two up quarters = ?
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