Am I the only one fed up with all of these mixed signals? I haven't been this confused since reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez on a Percocet high.
Just look at the headlines on own our site:
- US economy shrinks
- Private job survey shows stronger hiring
- Consumer confidence slips in January
And this is just from the last couple of days. I could go on and on. Each day's headlines seem to bring one side of the story or the other to the fore. Or both at once. And they say there's no balance in the media anymore. Hell, it's no wonder we're so collectively divided.
Seriously, though, this recovery's had more stops and starts than my wife driving a stick shift. Is this the result of wrong-headed policies, a lack of actual execution or is this—as I suspect—simply our new economic reality? I'm no classically trained economist—or even a very good home-schooled one—but is hyper-perpetual economic growth eternally sustainable?
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