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Amid Good News, Can Democrats Talk Down the Economy?

By Byron York
Wednesday, May 01 2019

"The recession talk in late 2018 got way, way out of hand," New York Times economic reporter Neil Irwin tweeted a few days ago. Indeed it did. Irwin's tweet came shortly after the government released figures showing the economy grew at a 3.2% annual rate in the first three months of this year. The number was good by anyone's measure, significantly outpacing predictions. And it raised a question: What about all that recession talk of the last few months? What was going on? Certainly, there were some economists who looked at various indicators — housing, energy, the international…

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