Is the media blaming first quarter GDP on winter like they did for 8 years?

this can go both ways FWIW

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Except this was a historically warm winter, no?

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So what it was winter, warm, cold, average, does not matter the Dims/MSM would have made that claim.

Except it kind of does matter. Economic growth is usually reported in seasonally adjusted numbers. If you have a winter that is significantly colder than what is incorporaated into the seasonal adjustment factor, it is going drive down that winter's growth.

We can have a discussion about whether or not creating an entire article around this reality is necessarily. We can also have a discussion about whether or not a cold winter alone is sufficient to explain the entire extent of a slow quarter's growth. But let's not do away with basic economics just because we don't like the conclusion. What we know for a fact about our economy is that an unexpectedly cold winter slows commerce. That narrative does not fit this year.

If dems made the claim that seasonally adjusted growth fell because it was winter despite record high temperatures, I'd call them out too. But they didn't. So let's not waste too much time arguing against our own imaginations