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Economics

Winter of our discontent

While we've all been given the excuse of the severe winter weather, the strong US dollar, the West Coast shipping strike and "erroneous seasonal adjustment" for another one of those weak first quarter in America ... certainly, the same excuses could not apply to the other slowing big OECD countries.

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