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If Douglas White would have had to predict 18 months ago whether the U.S. economy could achieve a “soft landing,” he along with most other economists would have given a resounding no.
But the Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, appea

Douglas White, the director for the Center for Business and Economic Research at LSUS, discussed second-quarter economic data from the Northwest Louisiana Economic Dashboard in September at a Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The third-quarter numbers were published in mid-November.
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