americans set a record for having the most babies. we begin america s news headquarters in alaska where it will be at least next tuesday before we know who won the g.o.p. senate primary. challenger joe miller leads incumbent lisa murkowski by 1700 votes. today on fox business network, miller said he s concerned that murkowski brought in republican party lawyers and might try to in his word skew results. there is a victory for pete shemlan in the democratic primary there beating doug racine by 970 votes. there are 67 days to go until mid-term election and what could be the end of the democrat control of both shame ber of commerce.
disappointing, sharp deterioration, some of the words that federal reserve chairman ben bernanke used to describe the state of the u.s. economy speaking to a group of top bankers and economic experts in jackson hole, wyoming. following they downgraded the gross domestic product to anemic 1.6%. the economy lost momentum and the evidence so far in the third quarter is not good. bernanke stopped short of announcing an immediate action by the fed. but should further action prove necessary, policy options are available to provide additional stimulus. any deployment of the option requires a careful comparison of benefit and cost. this comes on the heels of dismal july housing numbers, um employment numbers dangerously close to double digit. we are growing slowly. conditions are bad. bad economic news recently. i don t anyone should pretend we re in good shape. earlier, the administration continued to focus on what it calls the positive economic stride under president obama