Published 11/7/2008
by Steven Pearlstein
at Wash Post Elections
Now comes the hard part. Come January, President Obama will inherit the weakest U.S. economy in 25 years, with output shrinking, unemployment rising, the federal deficit out of control and a financial system on government life-support. The new president will probably spend his first year in offic...
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