So Are We Really In A Recession? What Got Us Here?


	So Are We Really In A Recession? What Got Us Here?

chaynepain

7-23-2008 1:38 AM

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us recession, us economy, fuel crisis, us mortgage crisis, us credit crunch

chaynepain says:

Many things have been going wrong financially for the US- fuel prices, job loss, real-estate crunch, etc. The Federal Reserve may be to blame for it.

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