Prepare yourself

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Tomorrow's GDP numbers are going to be good. Trump and his acolytes will say they are "unpresidented" however there were two quarters in 2014 where GDP exceeded 4% before returning to their new millennium levels of 2%.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/188185/percent-chance-from-preceding-period-in-real-gdp-in-the-us/

Also wage growth is stagnant, the deficit is ballooning, housing and auto purchases appears to be stalled, and the effects of Trump's nascent trade war has yet to be felt.

[Doodley]

1. Will include a surge in exports, as overseas buyers bought more before tariffs took effect.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. I noticed housing was down.

That caused the last recession. I knew this young woman who worked for Ashley. She was making money hand over fist. It disappeared virtually overnight when the Great Recession hit.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. It added as much as a point to GDP.

[Glamrock]

2. Let him keep bragging.

Anyone with half a brain and a high school econ class can read the writing on the wall. When shit crumbles there'll be no one to blame but the ego in chief.

[wcmagumba]

4. I'm feeling the trade war in my area...

grocery prices have gone up considerably...imo.

[a kennedy]

5. And how did orange blob know they were going to be good.....he said so in Illinois today.