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Re:US economy returned to growth last quarter, expanding 2.6% by zeroonetwothree on Thursday October 27, 2022 @12:52PM (#33360437)
It’s a pretty small drop and there is a lot of noise in that metric.
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Re:US economy returned to growth last quarter, expanding 2.6% by rendang on Thursday October 27, 2022 @01:15PM (#33360802)
What do you think could be behind the noise in this case? It does look like the steepest drop in many decades, and more surprising when we read stories on HN about automation that would imply a baseline increase in productivity.
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