CONGRESS MAY STIFLE RECOVERY BEFORE IT GROWS -- BY IRWIN STELZER, Washington Examiner

There are times when the economic data point in one direction, and businessmen in the privacy of their boardrooms point in another.

A case in point is the recent report that the recession is over: The housing and manufacturing sectors are recovering, and retailers have sheathed the hara-kiri knives they sharpened in anticipation of a gloomy holiday season as major categories of goods sell at the most robust pace in a year.

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