The agreement called for declining state support to allow the city time to manage its future burden through any city-determined combination of additional tax revenues, cost reductions or additional state support.
Several directors called for comment declined to return calls.
Individual jury members, when called for comment, declined to talk on the record about the selection process, saying that the development corporation had instructed them not to speak to reporters.
While officials of New Jersey Transit said they would keep the line running no matter what the federal plan called for, they declined to say how much money their agency could lose if Amtrak's service was scaled back in the region.
But it was not as steep as forecasts, which called for a 8.3 percent decline.
The consensus view expressed by 25 economists had called for a 0.3% decline.
The bears may find additional fodder as US housing starts come across the wires late into the session, with expectations calling for a decline in December.
Conventional economic theory calls for a decline averaging one percentage point a year between 2009 and 2013, when the unemployment rate averaged 8.7percentt.
Some analysts think the euro could keep falling if the ECB and the Fed head in opposite directions, with the Fed starting to "taper" its expansive policies next year.Openly calling for a decline is one thing.
The consensus forecast for the fourth quarter now calls for a decline of 21.1percentt, worse than the drop of 9.4percentt predicted at the start of the year for the same period, according to Thomson Financial.
He called for a more "gradual decline in the deficit".
