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A worried nation can breathe a collective sigh of relief this morning as doctors for former Minnesota governor, and once and future presidential candidate, Mitt Romney have downgraded the photogenic politician’s condition from critical to merely serious. Romney (who has been a patient at the Pershing General Medical Center for three days now after having been found despondent in a ball-pit at a local Chucky Cheese where he was -according to eyewitness accounts- sharing a romantic evening with an unidentified teen pop star whose initials are J.B.) is said to be in good spirits and looking forward to fully regaining...

The soft economy might feel like a recession, but isn't, and conditions won't deteriorate into a recession. That's the take of 62 economists surveyed by Bloomberg from Jan. 3-8. Their median estimate predicts the economy will grow 1.5 percent through June, the slowest since the final three quarters of 2001. One of the economists, Mickey Levy of Bank of America Corp., noted that consumer spending is holding up despite their worsening mood. Growth is anticipated to reignite in the third quarter as the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates beyond expectations. The median estimate said odds of a recession materializing in...