Robert Higgs, Investor's Business Daily

No Recovery Until America Invests Again

While most Americans are familiar with the broad ups and downs of the economy and the job market — the stuff of daily headlines — the deeper story of the continuing recession can be found buried in the statistical appendix to the 2010 report of the president's Council of Economic Advisers. That story: a devastating decline in investment spending.

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