Showing posts with label GDP 2025. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GDP 2025. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

In 2018 The Wall Street Journal was still defending China's admission into the WTO, today it pretends it wasn't part of that bipartisan folly

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 Then: "The U.S. properly worked for China's inclusion". Now: "An era of folly began in the new century. Leaders of both ...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

Unbelievably rosy GDP report contained core pce inflation data at 2.9% countering previous rosy core cpi inflation report at 2.6% and indicating rising inflation

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 U.S. economy grows by 4.3% in third quarter, much more than expected, delayed report shows   The U.S. economy grew at a much greater-than-e...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Even Larry Kudlow recognizes that GDP hasn't been good since 1984

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... The last time real GDP hit 5 percent for the entire year was Ronald Reagan’s 1984, where the number was 5.6 percent for that whole yea...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

This article in liberal VOX is a great defense of the metric called Gross Domestic Product

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 The only number that really matters  ... GDP tells you how much resource-generating capacity you have by looking at how much you are doing ...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

It is obvious to everyone except Republicans that the Reagan Revolution of tax cuts for the rich has failed to produce the economic growth America was accustomed to before he became president

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We had a few dozen billionaires in the Reagan era. Now we have hundreds. Growth of GDP, percent change, annual, rolled over after 1984, inau...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Ronald Reagan July 3, 1983: Don't let anyone tell us that America's best days are behind her (but they are)

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 The speech is here . Unfortunately the numbers don't lie. Shortly after that speech, economic growth rolled over definitively. I think ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Real GDP since the Trump tax reform in 2017 still lags the post-war rate by 27.5%

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Today's third estimate for 2Q2025 real GDP came in 0.5 points hotter at 3.8% on increased consumer spending:  Real GDP was revised up 0...
Friday, September 19, 2025

IMF: Global debt in 2024 was $251 trillion, 235% of global GDP

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  https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2025/09/17/global-debt-remains-above-235-of-world-gdp

I keep hearing that gold is soaring because of continued dollar weakness lol

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On the contrary, gold has risen despite continued dollar strength. The enormous gains for gold in 2024 and 2025 are not explained by a round...
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Biden killed off the Keystone XL pipeline, costing Alberta over $1 billion, construction workers over $2 billion, and the economy billion$ more, so Trump killing off wind is simply to be expected

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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Can you spot the GDP?

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  The real GDP report is out and it looks better than a month ago: +3.3% seasonally-adjusted annual rate for the second estimate for 2Q2025...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

America still isn't booming

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   The real GDP report is out and it looks pretty good at 3% for the first estimate for 2Q2025, especially in comparison with the -0.5% res...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

$30 billion is not jet fuel for the economy

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  ‘Big beautiful bill’ may help some seniors on Social Security. But it doesn’t eliminate taxes on benefits  ... The new additional senior d...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

If it hasn't been jet fuel since 2017, it won't be now

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Real GDP has been 2.43% compound annual 1Q2017 through 1Q2025. And that includes all the obscene pandemic spending. This isn't even clos...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

CNBC also is wondering where the fuel comes from for future GDP under the Trump tax cuts since they are already not cutting it lol

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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

What fools these people are! What fools they think we must be!

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  Trump's Tax Cuts Spurred Growth. BBB Will Do It Again Hassett & Miran, USA Today   TRUMP'S TAX CUTS ...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

The consensus estimate for today's GDP report was indeed for -0.2, instead it surprised at -0.5

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  First-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth was revised lower Thursday in light of reduced consumer spending, surprising economists...

1Q2025 real GDP revised down 0.3 to -0.5 in third and final estimate on an increase in imports front-loaded into 1Q to avoid Trump's tariffs

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 Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.5 percent in the first quarter of 2025 (January, February, and March), a...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

TACO Trump is negative for long term investment, 1Q2025 exports were the worst on record for their positive contribution to GDP

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Does anybody ever talk about exports anymore? You know, from domestic production?  ... In recent years, a cautious optimism had returned, a...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

CNBC avoids the story like the plague: Real GDP for 1Q2025 was revised up to -0.2% from -0.3% in today's second estimate for 1Q

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No one wants to talk about this. Crickets pretty much everywhere. CNBC had Rosie on to discuss, but there was no article.