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Commerce Department Deletes Recession From Record

Conspiracy theorists may now add this one to the books: Months before the November election the Bush Administration covered up the 2001 Recession.

That’s right. Never happened. Didn’t start under Clinton. Did not exist under Bush. Recession? We don’t see a recession here.

Although the Department of Commerce revisions to the 2000-2001 economic data are probably legit, the timing will surely raise a few eyebrows among the “Bush Lied!” crowd. Because he’s either lying now about there not being a recession, or he was lying then, ginning up a recession so he could give tax cuts to his rich friends.

US 2001 Slump May Not Have Been Recession at All [Reuters]


12:56 PM on Fri July 30 2004
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