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Monday, February 18, 2013

February 2013 Macro Pulse -- Groundhog Day?


In the movie Groundhog Day, Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is a weatherman required to cover a story about Punxsutawney Phil (the weather forecasting “rat” in Connors’ parlance). This is his fourth year on the story, and he is quite vocal in his frustration. The movie takes a twist, however, when upon awakening during subsequent mornings Connors discovers it is Groundhog Day over and over again. At first he finds it entertaining but soon realizes he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing every day unless he changes his ways.
In many respects it seems to us the U.S. economy is experiencing its own version of Groundhog Day. For example....
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