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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

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To: TobagoJack who wrote (14334)10/29/2004 11:39:28 PM
From: mishedlo  Read Replies (1) of 116555
 
Households Run Record $342 Billion Deficit!
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With today's release of third quarter GDP data, we see that households outdid themselves by spending a record $342 billion at an annual rate on consumer goods and services and residential investment more than they received in disposable (after-tax) income. The history of household surpluses, now deficits, is shown in Chart 1.
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I defy ANYONE to tell me this is sustainable and that correcting it will not involve a ton of pain and lower standard of living for most of the US.
aka DEFLATION

Mish

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