U.S. Economy Slowed to 1.6% Pace in 2nd Quarter
The revision is a significant slowdownfrom the annual rate of 3.7 percent in the first quarter and 5 percent in the last three months of 2009.
The news came at the end of a week that showed the economic retrenchment that began in the second quarter has spilled over into the summer. Existing home sales in July were down to their lowest level in a decade, and sales of new homes that month were at their lowest level since the government began tracking such data in 1963. Orders for large factory goods, excluding the volatile transportation sector, dropped in July, indicating that recovery in the manufacturing sector is also stalling.
You know things are bad when AP fact-checks Joe Biden.
Misdirection and massive borrowing don’t make for a “recovery summer”. Ed Morrisey explains why.
