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UNBELEIVABLE! MSN says Economy is not growing!
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P85427.asp?GT1=4244 ^ | July 9, 2004 | By Bill Fleckenstein

Posted on 07/09/2004 6:35:45 AM PDT by snarkytart

Contrarian Chronicles Stagflation, anyone? The slowdown has begun

All those bits of bad or mediocre economic and corporate news are not a coincidence. This isn't just a hitch in a recovery.

(Excerpt) Read more at moneycentral.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bushrecovery; economy; msn
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1 posted on 07/09/2004 6:35:46 AM PDT by snarkytart
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I heard this yesterday on CNN as well. They've decided that if they say it, it will be considered fact. We are up against a hotbed of no-integrity.


2 posted on 07/09/2004 6:37:23 AM PDT by sarasota
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...and you are celebrating this how?

Do you believe this country's economy is going down?

3 posted on 07/09/2004 6:39:47 AM PDT by pageonetoo (Rights, what Rights'. You're kidding, right? This is Amerika!)
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To: sarasota

fleck has been a ne'er do well doom and gloomer throughout the recovery.

Even cramer eased him off of his web site, Realmoney


4 posted on 07/09/2004 6:41:13 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: sarasota

I could not believe it.They are so desperate. So this guy along with CNN has decide to come out after the lowest jobless claims in 4 years and say there a no economic growth. They are a sham!

BTW, sorry I incorrectly spelled unbelievable in the title.LOL

I never use spell check!


5 posted on 07/09/2004 6:42:30 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: pageonetoo

what are you tlaking about?

I am not celebrating anything doofus


6 posted on 07/09/2004 6:43:32 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: snarkytart

Fleck is a perma-bear. He is NEVER optimistic.


7 posted on 07/09/2004 6:45:11 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Don't blame me. I voted for Sharpton.)
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To: snarkytart

They'll latch on to any numbers which they perceive as negatives for the President. I wonder what they'll say, if next month, the numbers look good again.


8 posted on 07/09/2004 6:46:25 AM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004/Because we MUST!!)
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Here is the article headline from the Austin Pravda today

Sales tax revenue up again

13 percent hike marks seven consecutive months of increases

Nope. The economy is not growing. May just post the article in a few.

9 posted on 07/09/2004 6:48:08 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Flush the john/john rat ticket in 2004. #1 & #4 liberals in Congress.)
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To: sarasota

MSNBC--are they still on the air?


10 posted on 07/09/2004 7:03:22 AM PDT by Uncle Vlad
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To: fooman

Actually Fleckenstein has been a perma bear going back at least to 96 or 97, when I first saw him. Guys like him and Gary Schilling buy this deflation, overcapacity argument year after year. Perhaps some century it will occur.


11 posted on 07/09/2004 7:05:03 AM PDT by Honestfreedom
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To: snarkytart

My company's cash flow is much better today than it was one year ago, and assuredly better than in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

I have a slightly different "take" on this kind of false reporting. Every small businessman in the country understands its not true. You can have political beliefs to the left, right or center....but business is business.

There is simply no way claiming the economy isn't growing will be viewed seriously by anyone with an IQ over 50.


12 posted on 07/09/2004 7:09:16 AM PDT by Badeye ("The day you stop learning, is the day you begin dying")
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To: Arrowhead1952

State deficits have all but been wiped out, after last year's dire predictions. Arizona now plans to keep our excess taxes for a rainy day fund.


13 posted on 07/09/2004 7:09:24 AM PDT by chiller (mainstream media = "Old" media and Old media is lyin' & dyin' .)
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To: Honestfreedom

Yeah, a broken clock is right twice a day.

He is entaining to read -off and on.

He is totally clueless as the productivity inceases, wealth increases and real wage increases.


14 posted on 07/09/2004 7:10:36 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: chiller

How come they never give back the excess taxes they collect?


15 posted on 07/09/2004 7:11:32 AM PDT by Guillermo (It's the 99% of Mohammedans that make the other 1% look bad.)
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Democrat Gov. thinks we don't need our money.

THIS JUST IN:

WASHINGTON DC - The new manufacturing numbers out today point to more economic record-setting news. The Manufacturers Alliance reported that its Business Outlook index rose to 80 its highest point since 1972. An index above 50 indicates expansion anything below 50 indicates shrinkage.

16 posted on 07/09/2004 7:13:14 AM PDT by chiller (mainstream media = "Old" media and Old media is lyin' & dyin' .)
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To: chiller

Yeah, but have you considered how many horse buggy manufacturers have gone out of business in the last 100 years?

Doom doom and more gloom.


17 posted on 07/09/2004 7:14:57 AM PDT by Guillermo (It's the 99% of Mohammedans that make the other 1% look bad.)
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18 posted on 07/09/2004 7:15:50 AM PDT by EscapedDutch (Loquendi Libertatem Custodiamus)
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To: snarkytart
It has now gotten to the point where they simply lie outright.

Seriously, I expect to hear that President Bush was indicted and convicted on 12 felony charges last year, including 3 counts of Armed Robbery during a rash of 7-11 stickups.

And you know what? The CNN/MSNBC crowd will report this with a straight face.

19 posted on 07/09/2004 7:19:05 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: Badeye
I have a slightly different "take" on this kind of false reporting. Every small businessman in the country understands its not true. You can have political beliefs to the left, right or center....but business is business. There is simply no way claiming the economy isn't growing will be viewed seriously by anyone with an IQ over 50.

True, but they aren't selling this scam to you guys, they are selling it to the bus-taking brown-bagging Joe Schmo worrying about his punch-press job.

20 posted on 07/09/2004 7:20:45 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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