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The US economy is in a funk

…borrowed ever-larger sums to live beyond their means through exotic mortgages, questionable auto loans and lax credit-card rules. In the housing market, mortgage companies were aided by real-estate appraisers, who…

…saved jobs in Pennsylvania and lost jobs in the auto industry in Michigan, highlight this point: “The duties have cost steel users, such as Troy-based Delphi Corp., the world’s biggest…