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Nov 07 2007 12:00am EDT

Japan Datapoint of the Day

And you thought it was bad here, in the US:

Japan's housing starts dived 44% in September from the year earlier, the sharpest fall on record, following a 43.3% plunge in August and a 23.4% drop in July.

As Brad DeLong might say, gurk!

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