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Are We Already in a New Recession?
FrontPage Magazine ^ | January 4, 2013 | Arnold Ahlert

Posted on 01/04/2013 5:51:20 AM PST by SJackson

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1 posted on 01/04/2013 5:51:21 AM PST by SJackson
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To: SJackson

The Obama-ites want to destroy our economy so that they can replace it with something else.


2 posted on 01/04/2013 5:57:52 AM PST by svxdave (Life is too short to wear a fake Rolex.)
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155,000 Jobs Added in December, Unemployment Rate 7.8%

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-04/155000-jobs-added-december-unemployment-rate-78


3 posted on 01/04/2013 5:57:55 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: SJackson

“””Are We Already in a New Recession? “””

We never got out of the old one.


4 posted on 01/04/2013 5:59:45 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: SJackson

Ask someone unemployed what we are in.


5 posted on 01/04/2013 6:02:29 AM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: shelterguy

I think we barely came out of the moderate Depression (2009-2012), and are now in a deep Recession.


6 posted on 01/04/2013 6:03:41 AM PST by Carriage Hill ("I meant to say maggot, but I have a lisp.")
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To: shelterguy

Just like the unemployment rate,
they can adjust the growth rate by including or excluding selected sectors and keep the reported rate above 0.


7 posted on 01/04/2013 6:04:25 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: shelterguy

Bingo!!! Complicit, lying media allowed obama to get away with saying the recession had ended.


8 posted on 01/04/2013 6:14:12 AM PST by Josa
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To: Josa

It is truly sad that so many are gullible enough to believe what they hear on the “news” or read in the “news”paper.
How did this country get so stupid so fast?


9 posted on 01/04/2013 6:18:44 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: SJackson

Obama contended that the nation is poised to debt growth.
The truth


10 posted on 01/04/2013 6:20:42 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Josa

Question. When does a Recession become a Depression or has the latter term been removed by liberals from the dictionary? I can’t remember when the economy was ever worse than it is today...


11 posted on 01/04/2013 6:23:54 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: carriage_hill; shelterguy

Think of it as driving from the upstate toward the ocean, along the way there will be some upgrades but the trend is toward lower altitudes until you finally reach sea level at the end. That is all we have seen in the past four years, anything that was called a recovery is no more significant than the slight climb as you cross the bridge over a little creek and rise back out of that valley, after which you resume a slow descent toward sea level. Of course the insignificant rise comes only after you have just experienced a briefly steeper descent as you go down into the valley.

In my view this is what has been going on for over four years now. Of course every attempt imaginable has been and is being made to claim that we are actually traveling to a higher altitude right up until the ocean becomes visible just ahead. I won’t elaborate on what the ocean represents, we all know that already.


12 posted on 01/04/2013 6:33:48 AM PST by RipSawyer (I was born on Earth, what planet is this?)
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To: shelterguy
Also by playing with the inflation rate. They compare the current production in dollars vs. last year's production in dollars, subtract the inflation rate and get "real" GDP growth or shrinkage. Adjust the inflation rate and you can get the GDP figure you want. And by looking at both prices and the amount of money the Federal Reserve is creating from nothing, there is no way the inflation rate for the past 12 months only 1.8%.
13 posted on 01/04/2013 6:39:22 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: RipSawyer

Agreed.


14 posted on 01/04/2013 6:50:26 AM PST by Carriage Hill ("I meant to say maggot, but I have a lisp.")
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To: jsanders2001
The Federal Government, being the number one employer in America, is doing great! The great mass of mindless turds swirling to the left are exhilarated by the river of debt and influx of new taxes! We are heading for some fantastically exciting times......

Due to the writing on the wall the current regime must move swiftly to neutralize the number one threat to embracing those changes...the Constitution and all those pesky things listed in the amendments., like the 2nd Amendment. Oh, they will allow some thinly veiled shadow of it to remain...hanging on a nearby wall so they can say, 'See...we still have it."

It will suffer the same absorption as the Press...and instead of being an extension of the voice of the people filled with iinvestigstive and carefully vetted facts... become another extension of the feral Government. Once upon a time there were things called reporters and non-yellow journalist capable of 'delivering the news' . News is now 'produced' and is only fit for use in bird cages or wiping your bum.

15 posted on 01/04/2013 6:55:48 AM PST by Mobilemitter (We must learn to fin >-)> for ourselves.........)
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To: SJackson

RINO File.


16 posted on 01/04/2013 6:59:51 AM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Commune Obama"care" violates Anti-Trust Laws, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: SJackson

New? Recession?

Try Sliding into Depression.

Just the way the Administration wants it.

We have been here before

Think FDR.


17 posted on 01/04/2013 7:02:35 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist Totalitarian Fascism coming to a country like yours.)
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To: shelterguy

Baraq, Timmy, and Ben create electronic money and pay it to the non-workers. So instead of looking like 1929-32, things are the “new normal”.

Now eventually this is gonna puke.....


18 posted on 01/04/2013 7:07:10 AM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: SJackson

Did we ever leave the old one....seriously, without borrowing for ‘stimulus’ and various QE schemes, has there been any growth? Has our growth in GDP even matched additional government ‘investment’ in the economy? If not, we’ve just elongated the recession, and never left it.


19 posted on 01/04/2013 7:10:28 AM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Chickensoup

My libinlaw the other night referred to the policies of FDR with regard to them getting us out of the depression. I think it was while we were watching “A Christmas Story” and discussing the timeframe.

I told my kids, watching with us at the time -
“Don’t worry, you’re homeschooled. When we get to that era in history, we’ll teach you the truth.”


20 posted on 01/04/2013 7:12:48 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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