The Economy Everyone's Alarmed About Is Utterly On Trend

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The economy is dull.

So insists James Sweeney, Credit Suisse AG economist. He points out that the U.S. inflation rate is unremarkable, unemployment is pretty standard and levels of global production are in keeping with their long-term trends.