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Fed Describes Economy as 鈥楽trong鈥 for the First Time Since 2006

The Federal Reserve described economic activity as 鈥渟trong鈥 in a statement Aug. 1, the first time it has done so since it called it 鈥渜uite strong鈥 in May 2006 鈥 in the late stages of the last economic expansion, shortly before the housing market drove the economy into meltdown.

August 2, 2018