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Weekly Wrap-up
The various weekly reviews that I usually read are looking pretty bleak right now. According to Vanguard’s Economic Week in Review:
This week showed no signs of a healing economy. Shaken by accelerated job losses, consumers continued to cut back on spending, bringing retail sales to their lowest level in more than 20 years. The U.S. [...]