About 96% forecasters believed that the US was already in recessionReuter News Service
The U.S. economy is in recession and will contract at a faster pace in the fourth quarter, extending the decline into early 2009 as high unemployment crimps consumer spending, a survey showed.
The National Association of Business Economists' poll of 50 professional forecasters released on Monday found that real gross domestic product was expected to fall 2.6 per cent in the fourth quarter and slump 1.3 per cent in the first three months of 2009.
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Preliminary government estimates showed GDP contracted 0.3 per cent in the third quarter. The results of the survey, which was conducted between Oct. 28 and Nov. 7 indicated growing pessimism among forecasters.
"Business economists became decidedly more negative on the economic outlook for the next several quarters as a result of the intensification of credit market stresses and evidence of spillover to the real economy," said NABE President Chris Varvares.
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More than a third reckoned the recession began in the third quarter of 2008, and nearly three-quarters believed it could persist beyond the first quarter of 2009. Over 60 per cent expected the depth of the recession to be contained, with the decline in GDP bottoming below 1.5 percent.
Overall GDP growth in 2008 was expected to come in at around 0.2 per cent and top 0.7 per cent next year, according to the survey. This compares with predictions of 1.2 per cent and 2.2 per cent respectively in October's survey.
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Hello my brotha's and sista's
yes Babylon is slowly but surely
making the weak go crazy about priceless trees/oops I mean
"Money"
I often laugh to myself when I go check my weekly schdule, theirs
5 cashiers, and 3 main managers.
Each week a certain amount of hours comes in through this multibillion dollar Store.
Of course the main manager works 46 hours a week, ooh she get's her's ok, which leaves the cashiers maybe 14 hours a piece.
Every morning the main boss has a frown and keeps headaches & cramps. I told her if she went to see a Natural Cure doctor he would advise her to try to overcome her addiction to Money.
I wasn't wrote up and if I am who cares money aint everything.
Just somemore cashier chronicles coming to the kingdom, on real life stories happening in Babylon
a place that's allergic to Change
Happiness and Peace.
It goes down on planet Earth?
I wonder what do the Rich people think about all day, Money money Money
It's definitely not worth stressing yourself to DEATH, cuz it's going to take a long time for the Devil to learn how to share
with the HUMANS on Planet EARTH.
Much Living Luv
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