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	<title><![CDATA[Half-Time Economic Update: Are You Smoking Green Shoots?]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-schlesinger/half-time-economic-update_b_226014.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>With half the year behind us and summer vacations beckoning, it's time to stop, take a breath and assess where we are in the economy and the markets. I would sum it up like this: <em>less bad doesn't equal good, but it's better than total melt-down.</em></p>

<p>After a dismal first quarter, there has been movement away from the edge of disaster. Credit is improving, but still tight; <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm">new job losses are still staggering,</a>, but not as bad as it was...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Business]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-07-09T16:06:00-04:00</date_published>
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