Code Red: 7 Serious Threats to U.S. Recovery
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Code Red: 7 Serious Threats to U.S. Recovery

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If the Great Recession didn’t kill us, this recovery just might.

Renewed worries about a Greek default, rising inflation, chronic unemployment, anemic GDP growth, and slumping home sales: For all these reasons and more, some economists fear that we’re headed for a double-dip recession.  The wave of bad news has rattled world markets and startled consumers, who weren’t spending very freely to begin with.

Here are 7 things that threaten the U.S. economic recovery, and what you need to know about them now.

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Sarah Stodola and Blaire Briody contributed to this article

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Tax Cuts and Job Creation: Fact or Fantasy? (The Fiscal Times) 
A New Guide to how the Middle Class is Being Crushed by Rising Prices, Falling Wages, And Declining Security (Business Insider) 
Moody’s Issues Credit Warning to U.S. Amid Political Wrangling Over Debt (Fox News) 

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