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Arizona economy: “Get over housing bubble, economists say, growth remains strong”

I won’t have September’s numbers until tomorrow, but the news is not good for bubbleheads — which is to say that the news is not bad for everyone else. Meanwhile, there’s this from The Business Journal of Phoenix:

Some of Arizona’s leading economists believe the housing slowdown is a short-lived bump in the road that too many people spend too much time thinking about.

Instead, Arizonans should be looking at statistics that show the state created 161,000 jobs through August of this year, more than 340,000 jobs since the end of the 2002 recession and had a whopping 8.7 percent gain in gross state product for 2005.

“It’s hard to imagine a state with more economic momentum,” said Kent Ennis, an economist and the director of research at the Arizona Department of Commerce.

I most sincerely do not hate to say I told you so

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