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Igel

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3. Very strange article.
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 11:37 PM
Feb 2013

My "kids" have trouble with velocity versus acceleration--rate of distance travelled versus increase in the rate of distance travelled.

The journalist would fit right in.

Rate of increase is low from f/y 2008 to 2009, from 2009 to 2010, 2010 to 2011, 2011 to 2012. 2009 is all Bush II's baby--the spending bill that Obama signed that Bush II stalled with a veto threat; the second tranche of TARP; the "Obama" stimulus (which is now, apparently, the "Bush II stimulus&quot . From 2007 to 2008 had a huge spending increase.

You pick your endpoints, you get your trendline.

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