This is causing business and consumers alike to restrain spending, creating a drag on the economy too great for any government stimulus to reverse.

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Rising energy prices are putting pressure on American wholesalers to try to raise prices, data for May showed Tuesday, but with the housing market mired in post- subprime doldrums and creating a drag on the overall economy, it will be increasingly difficult to make them stick.

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Rather than getting the economy back on track for future growth, we are simply creating a debt service burden that will put a drag on the economy for years to come.

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To his credit Dudley warns that the fiscal drag that is planned is too great to do much about creating sufficient growth.

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