U.S. Economy Grew Just 0.1%

COLD AS ICE

Updated Apr. 14, 2017 4:23PM EDT / Published Apr. 30, 2014 8:38AM EDT

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The U.S. economy grew just one-tenth of 1 percent in the first quarter of 2014, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. Blame a brutal winter that held down corporate spending and housing activity. Economists expected the economy to grow 1.2 percent. Either way, it's well below the post-WWII average of 3 percent annual growth. “We’ve been living in sub-3 percent land, and people have gotten used to that as the new normal,” economist Dan North told The New York Times. "But it’s not. It’s anemic."

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U.S. Economy Grew Just 0.1%

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