U.S. `sliding into a recession,' says Harvard economist (The Charlotte Observer)

Story date: 2008-05-07 12:05:13
Added on: 2008-05-08 02:10:36

Harvard University economist Martin Feldstein, a member of the committee that charts the American business cycle, said the U.S. economy is "sliding into a recession." "This is a weakening economy," Feldstein, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, said in a Bloomberg Television interview in New York on Tuesday. "If you compare where the economy is now, with where it began at the ...


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