The Consumer Week

Remember the TARP program? I hope we don't ever have to do that again. What a lot of them did was engage in buybacks and raising their dividend, which is not a sustainable technique to create growth in an economy. We're starting to see maybe some kind of kinks in the armor a little bit there. That would be the sort of thing that you'd really start having to get your antennas up about consumer spending if we were to see unemployment materially tick up on its way to 4% or so.

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