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Poll: 3 in 4 Say U.S. in Recession

Posted by Matt Ortega on March 18, 2008 at 10:09 AM

A recent USA Today/Gallup poll found that three in four Americans believe the economy has tipped into a recession.

As the Federal Reserve expanded credit to securities dealers and President Bush said his administration had taken "strong and decisive action," the poll revealed pessimism about the economy's direction.

Seventy-six percent of those polled said the economy is in recession, compared with 22% who said it's not. Not since September 1992, two months before President George H.W. Bush lost re-election, have so many said the economy was in such bad shape.

Last week, President Bush warned a room full of economists in New York that "overcorrection" could lead the U.S. economy "into a ditch" while the Fed took the "rare path" and bailed out Bear Stearns.

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