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Re:Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP by JumpCrisscross on Monday March 03, 2025 @03:47PM (#43246495)
Not relevant. The effect is almost entirely from net exports collapsing.
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Re:Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP by jfengel on Monday March 03, 2025 @04:17PM (#43246849)
But redefining the numbers does effectively prevent us from noticing.
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Re:Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP by JumpCrisscross on Monday March 03, 2025 @04:20PM (#43246901)
> redefining the numbers does effectively prevent us from noticing

Not really. If they started fucking with BLS statistics, that would be a problem. But DOGE hasn’t gotten there yet.

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Re:Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP by adgjlsfhk1 on Monday March 03, 2025 @04:32PM (#43247034)
they're working on it https://apnews.com/article/trump-gdp-economy-government-spen...
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Re:Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP by llm_nerd on Monday March 03, 2025 @04:38PM (#43247135)
I think they are pointing out that the current admin is doing the "sharpie on the hurricane path", or the "if you don't test for it you don't have cases" sort of approach.

But like those two ridiculous events, it's much, much larger than just government cuts. I mean...it doesn't even account for government cuts yet.

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