| 1 | In this period, unemployment reaches record levels. | |
| 2 | So what happens when those "record harvests" no longer materialize? | |
| 3 | Massive increases in government spending have already pushed the federal deficit to near record levels. | |
| 4 | America' s been blessed with year after year of "record harvests, " depending on how you measure it. | |
| 5 | This explains why personal consumption expenditures fell at record rates at the end of 2008. |