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Published 10/31/2008 by Neil Irwin and Lori Montgomery at Wash Post In Congress
Through recession, countless natural disasters and a major terrorist attack, there has been one constant in the U.S. economy: American consumers have bought more stuff in any given quarter than they did in the previous one.
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