Is Washington infighting hurting the economy?

... hands rather than aggressively invest and expand," said Stephen Stanley, an economist at Pierpont Securities in Stamford, Connecticut. The data led Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics in Toronto, to lower his forecast for third-quarter ...

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