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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (115960)	9/19/2007 2:47:36 PM
From: T L Comiskey	of 361497

AP Housing Slump May Produce a Recession Wednesday September 19, 12:57 pm ET By Alan Zibel, AP Business Writer Economist: Housing Downturn Raises 'Significant Risk' of a Recession WASHINGTON (AP) -- An economist who has long predicted this decade's housing market bubble would deflate said the residential real estate downturn could spiral into "the most severe since the Great Depression" and could lead to a recession. Yale University economist Robert Shiller's written comments to lawmakers came a day after the Federal Reserve responded to credit market turmoil by slashing the target federal funds rate by a half point to 4.75 percent. Shiller, in testimony prepared for a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee said the loss of a boom mentality among the public may bring on a drop in consumer confidence that poses a "significant risk" of a recession within the next year. Meanwhile, Peter Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office, gave a more tempered forecast, saying that financial market turmoil and weakened consumer confidence pose economic threats but are not likely to send the economy into a recession. A hypothetical 20 percent drop in home prices over two years would reduce U.S. economic growth by one half of a percentage point annually to 1 1/2 percentage points annually after three years, the Congressional Budget Office calculates. "The risk of recession is elevated but the most likely scenario at this point seems to be continued economic growth," Orszag said.

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