1.0 link 81290 <![CDATA[Odds For Recession Increase]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/13/odds-for-recession-increa_n_81290.html The unemployment rate leaps to a two-year high, record numbers of people are forced from their homes and Wall Street nose-dives again. Such is the fallout from a housing meltdown that threatens to slingshot the country into a recession.

The big economic question these days is whether the weakening economy will survive the strains or collapse under them.

The odds have grown that the economy will slip into a recession. At the beginning of last year, many economists put that chance at...

]]> 2008-03-28T02:45:00-04:00