But just how bad was the first quarter for the American economy? Commerce Department GDP came in at .1 percent growth, which is treading water, but barely. Speculation had the revised figures showing that the economy actually contracted and now, as Ben Leubsdorf of the Wall Street Journal reports, we are seeing numbers that validate these fears:
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