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A downward revision in earnings, in traditional circumstances, signals slowing investment. This time around, corporate debt levels and malinvestment are such that a pullback in private sector-led investment could trigger the protracted downturn skeptics have been calling for.
We have seen some of this before. In 2001, investment levels