Yet the government actors behind the rebound look spent.
Seasonal adjustments could exaggerate the recovery from the weather-depressed months of February and March, thus making the rebound look stronger than it is, but the relief rally that helped stocks as the war began could help the economy now.
James had 33 points and 11 rebounds, looking more like the James of 2012, his aggression never in question.
To their discredit, the Knicks made the soon-to-be 34-year-old Vince Carter (29 points, 12 rebounds) look a decade younger.
It was certainly typical playoff basketball for O'Neal, who led the Lakers with 34 points and 23 rebounds, looking again like the most dominant player in the game.
"It's been in our mind-set since game No. 1 of this season to be a team that goes hard to the net, look for rebounds, look for deflections, screens, all those things," Renney said.
So the rebound story looks wrong.Or was it?
Russia's rebound also looks lackluster compared with its own performance after an earlier crisis, in 1998.
BEIJING — Surprisingly strong rebounds in China's exports and imports in July offered some hope that the economy might be stabilizing, government data showed Thursday, after more than two years of slowing growth, although an imminent rebound still looks improbable.
And a quick rebound next year looks unlikely.The day after the Republicans swept to victory, America's central bank cut interest rates by half a percentage point, to 1.25%, citing "greater uncertainty" that is "currently inhibiting spending, production and employment".
