“Unlike the 1930s, President Obama does not have an economy that can be pulled out of recession by massive public works and welfare programs,” said Morris Segall, president of Baltimore-based SPG Trend Advisors. “The workforce is too skilled and older, and the federal deficits from the banking-system bailout are too large.”

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