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The Kiplinger Letter for Sept. 16, 2011, states: GDP is likely to grow no more than 2 percent. ... Such weakness usually spells recession ahead. ... But that pattern may not apply this time. Slowing growth may instead spell stagnation, a time more akin to Japan's 20 years of weak GDP gains. .... There has been no real bounce-back from the 2007-2008 slump. Twenty years of stagnation? So let me ask you all this: What is it that this economy has in common with Japan? What is it that this economy has in common with the last stagnation of the...

I suppose it could have been a coincidence. But the MSM normally displays such an exquisite sense of political correctness in choosing which people to feature in its segments. So when a Good Morning America segment on people who have recently lost their jobs focused exclusively on melanin-deprived folks, it made me wonder. Did ABC have some kind of motive at work here? ABC correspondent John Berman narrated the segment. It told the tale of seven people. Roger Olsen, Lee Sakellarides, Doreen Baird, Karen Albert, Dori Martin and two unidentified folks all had something in common beyond being members of...