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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAbout the GDP. These numbers come from people. People who might worry about being fired
on Twitter. People who might worry about their pensions, insurance, paying their kid's tuition, the mortgage, car payment, etc. Nothing from this government is trustworthy anymore. Fear is a motivator, probably more of one than professionalism or pride. That's all I have to say. Now I am going to try to sleep in Trumpist Dumbfuckistan.
RockRaven
(15,035 posts)to (very transiently) increased export numbers due to parties placing orders/making payments in advance of anticipated tariffs from Trump's trade war. It was a bookkeeping gimmick on the part of the buyers who would have bought the same amount of whatever in any given time period, but just committed early to their next order to lock in the pre-tariff price.
Which means all those sales were merely accelerated in time from next quarter's numbers to this quarter's numbers. And that means next quarter's numbers will lack those revenues. Anticipate the other shoe to drop in a few months.
rzemanfl
(29,573 posts)pnwmom
(109,009 posts)warning that this quarter's growth might come at the expense of growth in the rest of the year.
It's just a mirage.