The United States is in a better position to recover from the global economic recession than other industrialized nations, according to one U.S. economist, who noted that there's plenty of reason for optimism. "You should be optimistic about the future. The U.S. economy will expand into 2013 after slowing through the second quarter of 2012," Alan Beau-lieu, senior analyst, economist and principal of the Boscawen, N.H.-based Institute for Trend Research, told some 400 Metals Service Center Institute members at the annual MSCI Economic Forecast Summit this week. "There's no recession-we are just slowing down."
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