re: U.S. economy shrank 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025

Not that the Trump economic plan is without some risk, but this is to be expected when you hit the reset button on the global economic model. Which was broken, btw. The US and China will reach a trade deal eventually, but it will be more advantageous to the US. I trust that Scott Bessent knows exactly what needs to be done.

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Am I reading that we would have had ~5% growth if weren't for massive imports due to stocking up for trade war

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Yes. This is a self imposed contraction

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I’m a professional economist. Y’all don’t understand the variable you are talking about. This is the Dunning Kruger Effect in action. You don’t know enough about GDP to know what you don’t know.

See my other reply immediately prior to this one.

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The article quotes BEA numbers, which you are surely familiar with if you are what you say you are. I provided the actual graph for you showing how the GDP calculation was made, directly from the BEA's website.

If you can address the graphs provided directly, then someone might start to believe you. Right now, you're avoiding the question, which makes you look more like an attorney than an economist, and no one wants that label.

You can't tell these trumptards anything man.....they know everything.

Looking back, maybe have one old arse senial candidate and one old arse egomaniac candidate wasn’t good

There is zero endgame to what Trump is doing. He is doing angry old man shite

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Tariffs have consequences

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Real GDP down.

Consumption down.

Prices up.