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• First quarter growth revised upward again - TB - 6/26/2008 4:47:42 PM
  • re: First quarter growth revised upward again - Yeti - 6/27/2008 12:16:41 AM
    • Good point - TB - 6/27/2008 4:04:47 AM
      • Recessions are always declared after the fact, even in the dumbed down case - Yeti - 6/27/2008 5:16:37 AM
    • Oh, and add in - Yeti - 6/27/2008 12:21:18 AM
  • I certainly hope the Bush administration doesn't plan to brag about 1% growth... - z - 6/26/2008 7:21:49 PM
    • I wouldn't either. - TB - 6/26/2008 7:25:15 PM
      • well thank goodness you used the word "artificially" - z - 6/26/2008 9:08:51 PM
        • You could hear a pin drop (n/t) - pb - 6/27/2008 7:46:47 AM
        • Okay, here's fifty billion dollars. - TB - 6/26/2008 10:29:39 PM
          • By what twist of conservative logic are we to believe - z - 6/27/2008 1:43:46 PM
            • Your benchmark was enough funding to hunt down bin Laden. - TB - 6/27/2008 2:06:49 PM
              • How do you know he's not in Afghanistan??? - z - 6/27/2008 3:12:02 PM
                • Well, how do you know he's not in Wisconsin??? - TB - 6/27/2008 4:32:58 PM
  • It's a sad state of affairs. - Bowser - 6/26/2008 5:53:12 PM
    • No shit. - RobVG - 6/27/2008 2:45:34 AM
      • Careful there, Rob, words like that will catch you a case of 'TB' - Yeti - 6/28/2008 3:49:34 PM
        • My bad. - RobVG - 6/28/2008 4:11:21 PM
    • I bet it would have passed your "smell test" if the numbers had met your approval. - TB - 6/26/2008 6:40:23 PM
      • Of course - the numbers would have matched observations. - Bowser - 6/26/2008 6:58:42 PM
        • The plural of "anecdote" is not "data." (n/t) - TB - 6/26/2008 7:22:12 PM
          • The track record of the Bushes is to cherry-pick for political gain. (n/t) - Bowser - 6/26/2008 7:30:52 PM
  • Dang, forgot link, too. - TB - 6/26/2008 4:53:08 PM
  • Should be "improves" not "improved." (n/t) - TB - 6/26/2008 4:48:34 PM