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- <text id=91TT2224>
- <title>
- Oct. 07, 1991: Business Notes:The Economy
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- THE ECONOMY
- Stuck in The Ditch
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The Bush Administration and many economists contend that the
- long economic downturn is coming to an end, but with a recovery
- like this, who needs a recession? Statistics released last week
- indicate that if a turnaround has begun, it has done so with
- remarkable subtlety:
- </p>
- <p>-- The government's revised estimate of economic output
- during the second quarter showed a 0.5% drop, the third
- consecutive decline.
- </p>
- <p>-- Sales of existing single-family homes fell 2.1% in
- August compared with July.
- </p>
- <p>-- Consumer confidence was down for the third month in a
- row, according to the Conference Board, a research group.
- </p>
- <p>-- The number of workers applying for initial unemployment
- benefits rose to 439,000 for the week ending Sept. 14, up from
- 403,000 the previous week.
- </p>
- <p>-- Monthly orders for durable goods fell 3.8% in August.
- </p>
- <p> Conclusion: America still considers this a recovery that
- only a President could love.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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