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Businesses Blame Slow Sales on Housing

Newsweek columnist Daniel Gross says a lot of people use home equity to buy big-ticket items, such as boats and cars, and those industries are already blaming a downturn in business on the problems in the housing market.

Gross talks with Robert Siegel.

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