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Just as this administration has a habit of downgrading every GDP quarter, not they're downgrading the whole darn outlook...

Federal Reserve: Unemployment to stay high

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We have been struggling through the weakest economic recovery the U.S. has seen. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve projected more sluggish growth and high unemployment ahead. The Fed said its last forecast back in April was too optimistic.

The Fed's projection has changed for next year. It had expected growth in the economy to be as little as 2.7 percent. But on Wednesday, the Fed revised that down to as little 2.2 percent growth. In April, the Fed had also projected unemployment might stay as high as 7.7 percent-- it revised that up to 8.0 Wednesday.

The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, said he will try -- once again -- to jolt the economy out of neutral. The Fed moved to push interest rates already at record lows even lower. Bernanke wants to reduce borrowing costs for businesses and consumers to keep the economy from stalling again.

"Underlying all this, of course, is the fact that the outlook has changed," Bernanke said. "Like many other forecasters, the Federal Reserve was too optimistic early in the recovery."
Remember when Obama touted 2010 as "the summer of recovery"?...

Here we are two years later...Nothin'...
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"Underlying all this, of course, is the fact that the outlook has changed," Bernanke said.

"Like many other forecasters, the Federal Reserve was too optimistic early in the recovery."



Anyone else get the feeling that we are being set up for another "stimulus".....?


I think I've seen this movie before......
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Old 06-21-2012, 09:15 AM
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Just as this administration has a habit of downgrading every GDP quarter, not they're downgrading the whole darn outlook...

Federal Reserve: Unemployment to stay high

Remember when Obama touted 2010 as "the summer of recovery"?...

Here we are two years later...Nothin'...
Are you telling us that an OA projection was revised towards the negative??? For some reason I feel like this has happened somewhere else.....
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Some say that this go-round will be even worse than before, because people have been over-optimistic.

I've still got my hipwaders on from the last time.....
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Yep, It's the same ole song........................
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