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Title: U.S. economy picked up speed as 2010 ended
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Reuters
URL Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41310447/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/
Published: Jan 28, 2011
Author: Reuters
Post Date: 2011-01-28 09:12:30 by go65
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Comments: 52
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy gathered speed in the fourth quarter, though a touch below expectations, with the biggest gain in consumer spending in more than four years and strong exports offering the clearest signals yet that a sustainable recovery is under way. Even with growth quickening, however, progress reducing unemployment has been painfully slow, and the report on U.S. gross domestic product on Friday is little comfort for millions of unemployed Americans or the Federal Reserve officials on a jobs-creation vigil. The economy grew at a solid 3.2 percent annual rate in the final three months of 2010, the Commerce Department said, after expanding at a 2.6 percent pace in the third quarter. The rise was a touch below economists' expectations for a 3.5 percent rate. For the whole of 2010, the economy grew 2.9 percent, the biggest gain since 2005. The economy contracted 2.6 percent in 2009.
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And "the stimulus didn't work" argument comes to an end.
It came to an end a long time ago. It didn't work. The economy will make a natural recovery from a recession. It always has. This recovery has been painfully slow. It is clear that obamanomics has stifled the economy terribly, not helped it.
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And "the stimulus didn't work" argument comes to an end.
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