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A rock and a hard place

by Tony Sagami on July 16, 2008

in Inflation Statistics

Ben Bernanke told Congress that risks to the overall economy were still “skewed to the downside” and that inflation “seems likely to move temporarily higher in the near term.”

Recession + inflation is bad, bad news for the U.S. economy and our stock market.

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