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Why Businesses Aren't Investing in the U.S.

aknowles Wrote: May 06, 2012 1:08 PM

Always a reason for the cost of living. Think Tanks always have solutions too but they never work. It is the people who dig themselves out. We have done it before and we will do it again. That is if we can find the Constitution and fired the would-be takeover jerks in OUR White House.

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Why Businesses Aren't Investing in the U.S.

Businesses aren’t investing in the United States because of a lack of consumer demand, International Paper CEO John Faraci said Friday.

“I think this was all about consumer spending and demand. You know, the problem we have is there’s inadequate demand to create jobs. We know how to respond when there is demand,” he said on CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report.”

The U.S. Commerce Department estimated that gross domestic product expanded at a 2.2 percent annual rate in the first quarter, falling short of analysts’ expectations it would grow 2.5 percent and slowing down from...