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...likely add up to a bleak picture, both in terms of consumer confidence levels and the overall health of the U.S. economy. "The data will show an economy that has lost a lot of steam in September in relation to August," says Joe LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank. "It remains to be seen how bad October will be, but we could really see a bad quarter in terms of Gross Domestic Product performance where we are down at least a couple of percentage points...
...Visibility is very poor, so it's impossible to see how badly the flagging real economy will be undermined by this," comments HervéGoulletquer, head of fixed income markets for French Investment Bank Calyon Crédit Agricole. "Growth in emerging markets next year had been expected to mitigate zero-growth anticipated in Europe and the U.S. After all that's happened, no one can say: this could be a mild slowing, or it could be severe...
...Less than 24 hours after unveiling France's $488 billion rescue plan earlier this week, for example, French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with the heads of the nation's top banks to urge them to extend loans to creditworthy business and households "without delay or additional constraints." Sarkozy pointedly reminded bank presidents that freeing up such funds - a basic necessity for business development and economic growth - was one of the main reasons governments around the globe have pledged trillions of dollars in tax payer money to rescue the financial system in the first place...
...never thought I'd be agreeing with Republican Senator Richard Shelby from Alabama, but my assessment of the current bank bailout conforms with his response: No! Invest in infrastructure, home weatherization, worker-retraining, green-collar jobs and whatever will move us away from our oil addiction. Rather than doubling down on our already obscene national debt, we should face up to letting the chips fall and reorganizing our lives and economy around a sustainable paradigm. Bruce Garver, MURRIETA, CALIF...
...retreat from confrontation like a herd of Stan Laurels. Opposition parties have pledged for now to support the government's efforts to end the turmoil, but are itching to emphasize Brown's own role in creating it. "When he rewrote financial regulation in 1997, Gordon Brown took away the Bank of England's power to call time on the build-up of debt," Conservative Shadow Chancellor George Osborne tells Time in a rare frontal attack. "The result is that we now have the most personal debt of any major economy ever...