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This economy sure isn't growing. The release this week of the size-of-the-economy measurement, "GDP," made it plain. So far in 2016, growth is all of half a percent—at an annual rate. This follows on the sub-2 percent trend of the previous quarters, and fully a decade now of yearly sub-3 percent growth, the first time that has ever happened in American history. Negligible economic growth—bringing with it the masses of dropouts from the labor force, students drifting through universities

This economy sure isn't growing. The release this week of the size-of-the-economy measurement, "GDP," made it plain. So far in 2016, growth is all of half a percent—at an annual rate. This follows on the sub-2 percent trend of the previous quarters, and fully a decade now of yearly sub-3 percent growth, the first time that has ever happened in American history. Negligible economic growth—bringing with it the masses of dropouts from the labor force, students drifting through universities on loan…