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This is odd in the extreme. There are a dozen other measures of economic health. Democrats understandably do not want to talk about them because they happen to be positive: the fastest growth rate in the West (now settling in at a healthy 4.2%), historically low interest rates and mortgage rates, record high productivity, record high homeownership, booming home values and low inflation. Why, even the unemployment rate, the traditional measure of the job market, is significantly below the average for the past three decades. Nonetheless, the burning political issue is job creation, a thin slice of the economic picture...
...This is odd in the extreme. There are a dozen other measures of economic health. Democrats understandably do not want to talk about them because they happen to be positive: the fastest growth rate in the West (now settling in at a healthy 4.2%), historically low interest rates and mortgage rates, record high productivity, record high homeownership, booming home values and low inflation. Why, even the unemployment rate, the traditional measure of the job market, is significantly below the average for the past three decades. Nonetheless, the burning political issue is job creation, a thin slice of the economic picture...
...think of chow after. They want to break for chow as quickly as possible." But the Americans also sympathize with the Iraqis' complaints that they can't stand up to anyone with such shoddy equipment. "They don't have their own flak jackets--the fastest ones get them, the rest go without," says one U.S. adviser. "Their weapons are old and unreliable." As a result, says another adviser, "when they go out with us they feel like amateurs. It's s___ for morale...
...doldrums," says Harry Schuhmacher, editor of the newsletter Beer Business Daily. Anheuser attributes its record U.S. beer sales last year (103 million bbl., up 800,000) in large part to Ultra, which was launched in late 2002 and whose sales have more than quadrupled initial projections. "It became the fastest-growing beer brand since Miller Lite was introduced in 1975," says Schuhmacher. The company quietly reformulated its Natural Lite to add to the low-carb train. Promoting low-carb beer got a little trickier this month when the Feds warned against ads portraying these drinks as even remotely healthy...
...eBay users, she makes a point of being self-effacing--even when they are all chanting her name. Typically, her first words to adoring online auctioneers are, "This is about you." In a sense, she's right: eBay would not be what it is today--one of the fastest-growing companies in America, collecting more than $2 billion in annual revenue--without its virtual community of approximately 30 million active users. They are the ones who are trading $900 worth of goods and services a second on her website...