In general, the U.S. economy is healthy and quite strong. A few soft spots have gotten all the news recently, with real estate going through its first year-to-year decline since the 1930s. Most homeowners have never had their home values deflated before, consequently some were leveraged beyond reality, encouraged by financial institutions. The bubble had to break, and 2007 was the year. This has impacted less than 5 percent of the home owners, so 95 percent are still doing quite well. This said, most consumers will continue to purchase the food products they want, but in a conservative way.
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