As soon as the GOP buys into a forecast of permanent, sub-normal economic growth, it is sunk.

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"The Camp 020 interrogators maintain that Evensen ought not to be judged by any ordinary standards as it is obvious that his mental powers are sub-normal, his memory hopeless and his mind an inchoate jumble, " said the final report.

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Due to these reasons, the current sub-par economic growth has become the new normal.

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