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Editorial: In defense of a booming economy. This is no 'sugar high'

The U.S. economy is growing at such a fast clip and the unemployment rate is so low that ... there must be something terribly wrong. Does that make sense? No, but the healthy state of the country seems to be too much for some economists, talking heads and others in the chattering class. They struggle to find something

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