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What I'm saying is that Grifty is an unusually **** POTUS.Cannonpointer » 37 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Yeah, when you're acting out the way Trump is, you own the results - even in the first quarter. I know that I, personally, have made purchases in advance that I would not have made ordinarily. I made these purchases specifically to avoid the tariffs. I have no illusions that I am the smartest mother **** in Murka and the ONLY SUMBITCH that thought of doing that. So... yeah. Trump owns the surge in imports. The rest of the argument is a wee hazier for me.
I do not see the relationship between "panic purchases" (FTR, I was quite calm; I was scheming, not panicking) and GDP contraction. How does that bit work? Also, a "contraction" of three tenths of one hundredth? That is only a "contraction" in jackoff land. Three tenths of one percent is a rounding error. It's three one thousandths, to be mathematorically precise. On what planet would a "contraction" that small, in a measured object that big, be outside the margin of error?
What you are really saying is that the economy was flat for Trumps first hundred days. To which I reply, okay. Thanks for the info.
The four main components of GDP are consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports.