Submitted by CARPE DIEM

Economic growth in the G7 countries (U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and UK) was 0.48% (1.92% annualy) in the first quarter of 2008, just slightly below the average growth of .50% over the last 7 years (see graph above, data from OECD).

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