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Tossing The Consumer Under The Bus...And Expecting A Recovery
• ZeroHedge.comI’ve been pouring through the Fed’s recent release of circa 2005 FOMC transcripts. The most striking observation that one can make is that the consumer - the very lifeblood that determines whether our economy will live or die - has been discarded.