Actually US GDP has been IN DECLINE since Q2-2018. So It only took Trump 2 years to send the US economy sliding towards the ditch. Now we have crashed in the ditch, the car is on fire, the police slapped on the cuffs & snuffed the life plum out.
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Love it when people argue over Qtr to Qtr GDP numbers.. It's MEANINGLESS to the average American. Here's the REAL adjusted per capita GDP over that same period...
The Quarterlies are for financial wonks trying to devine SHORT TERM trends in the economy., If a quarterly was 1% lower the PREVIOUS quarter -- it takes a 2% quarter to put that curve above back on the SAME PATH... GDP adjusted per capita isn't FELT in the wallet of Americans... And it's virtually FREE of political mechanization
What MATTERS to wallets is Household Income, Interest rates, and Worker participation in the economy.. Go pull some graphs for those...
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