The MPs' arguments will intensify the debate in the coalition government about how to reverse the slide in the economy, which has seen the UK slip into a double dip recession.

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Yes, the US economic recovery is mediocre, but the US economy is still growing and there is almost no chance, short of some unforeseen economic disaster, that could cause the US to slip back into a double-dip recession.

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