What Economic Recovery? Federal Reserve Bank revises growth forcast downward, blames Europe

No surprise, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank revised its economic growth forecast downward.

Back in June the bank predicted U.S. growth at 2.9% (which is still bad, it needs to be above 3% to be good).  Now they revised it downward by one percent, to 1.9%.  Can you say stagnation?

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the expanding crisis in Europe has made the future of the U.S. economy increasingly unclear.