[Infowarrior] - WH cites Google search term as 'progress'

[Richard Forno]

Hell of a metric for progress, eh?    -rf

Larry Summers cites Google search as progress
Of all the statistics pouring into the White House every day, top  
economic adviser Larry Summers highlighted one Friday to make his case  
that the economic free-fall has ended.

The number of people searching for the term “economic depression” on  
Google is down to normal levels, Summers said.

Searches for the term were up four-fold when the recession deepened in  
the earlier part of the year, and the recent shift goes to show  
consumer confidence is higher, Summers told the Peterson Institute for  
International Economics.

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