NPR Senior Business News Editor

NPR Senior Business News Editor

¨  Today's Economy: What should we call this? A Recession? A Recovery?

             

¨  If it's a recovery, why do Americans still feel so glum?

 

¨  What's happening in your local economy?

¨  How can we get out of this slump?

In A RecessionRecoveryOther

The slowdown in the housing sector "is a concern, but at this point we don't see it as being a broad financial concern or a major factor in assessing the course of the economy."

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaking to the House Budget Committee in February 2007.

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¨  The European debt crisis

¨  China is weaker than it admits

¨  A fiscal calamity caused by Congressional gridlock

¨  Energy

¨  Agriculture

¨  Autos

¨  Insourcing

http://www.bls.gov/lau

http://www.standardandpoors.com

http://www.census.gov/govs/qtax