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The NYT columnist says,"what you see isn't a recovering economy that may be stumbling; you see an economy that has stopped its free fall, but hasn't really been recovering at all." So does that mean we'll finally see relief in 2018?
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Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.