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Consumer Metrics Institute: The Great Recession Never Really Left Us
• minyanville.comA couple of charts from the Consumer Metrics Institute show how the economic contraction may be over for Bernanke, Geithner and Goldman Sachs, but is firmly entrenched for the rest of us. (Contraction reaches 400 days)