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The two conflicting visions don’t add up, said Ed Gresser, a former USTR economist now at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Democratic think tank.
“I don’t think you can say in the State of the Union address that the economy is in really, really great shape and then also say we’re about to have a collapse in the dollar, mass unemployment, inability to service foreign debt, those sorts of things,” Gresser said.
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