Economic Commentary Highlights...

• The Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book helped confirm that the U.S. economy picked up steam as 2011 ended and 2012 began.

• The latest Beige Book also showed considerable improvement versus the November Beige Book, and both have improved drastically versus 2009, despite the financial media’s instance that “this is just like 2008/2009.”

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