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Housing Market Still Keeping Economy Down

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Fri, 06/26/2009 - 6:13am

The Federal Reserve said this week that the "pace of the economic contraction is slowing." But house prices are still falling, and some analysts - including former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan — say the economy can't go up until house prices stop going down.

David Wessel of The Wall Street Journal talks with David Greene about the housing industry.