US economy grew much more slowly than previously reported in fourth quarter

Washington  — 

The US economy was on shaky footing even before President Donald Trump plunged the United States into a war with Iran, a battery of new data released Friday showed.

At the end of last year, economic growth was anemic, the Commerce Department said Friday, dragged down by the historic government shutdown. Economists widely expect most of those losses to be recouped in the current quarter stretching from January through March.

But America still has an inflation problem, according to January figures released Friday — one that will likely worsen if the Iran

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