Jim Clifton

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• Feb 18, 2013

  America Is Losing Jobs by Ignoring Its Best Trading Partners

  There was a time when the news that GDP declined last quarter at an annualized rate of 0.1 percent -- as the Department of Commerce recently reported -- would've set off alarms all over the media. But the silence was deafening. I guess the mainstream media and leadership in Washington -- from both sides of the aisle -- are just getting used to a stagnant economy. GDP growth is slowly but surely leaving the conversation.