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TheRealMafoo said:

 

So the economy next month will be better then this month? How about the month after that?

And being in the green and not the red is playing with numbers. Oh, and who has offloaded any toxic assets?

Well saying "the economy" is too broad.  The economy as a whole entails a lot of different things.  And what people consider "better" can also be quite different.  To me, better is just less bad in this context.  So yes, I think the economy will be less bad this month than it was last month.  And it will be less bad the following month than it will be next month.

Yeah.  That's all it is.  Playing with numbers.  I'm sure in this economic environment they don't have 100 different groups looking over their shoulders into the validity of their numbers.  Its a massive conspiracy to defraud the taxpayers out of money.

And you are also assuming that the toxic assets are as toxic as people thought.  There are many signs that they might not be as toxic as people believed.

 



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