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US ECONOMIC GROWTH WEAKER THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT Anonymous 02/23/26(Mon)16:25:08 No.1491406 [Reply]▶
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U.S. economic growth slowed in the final three months of last year, dragged down by the six-week shutdown of the federal government and a pullback in consumer spending. Consumer spending only rose 2.4% in the fourth quarter, a decrease compared to the third quarter’s 3.5% gain.
Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, said the report reflected a “one-legged” economy boosted mostly by artificial intelligence. A separate report Friday showed that inflation, according to the Fed’s preferred measure, accelerated in December, as the cost of goods such as furniture, clothes, and groceries increased dramatically.
Many households, however, have had to take on more debt to fuel their spending. The saving rate dropped in the fourth quarter to the second-lowest figure since August 2008, when the economy was mired in the Great Recession.
https://apnews.com/article/gdp-economy-consumer-shutdown-immigration-0 e5caca783b93eaf2231496e3e0f54f3
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>>1491406
>Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, said the report reflected a “one-legged” economy boosted mostly by artificial intelligence
Yeah I'm pretty sure most of us know this entire economy is reliant solely on the slowly popping AI bubble to not crash outright.
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>>1491406
>The economy has been getting wealth extracted by the richest 2% for the last 80 years
>Its Trump's fault!
The reality is that its the fault of every elected official and their entire cabinet since at least the Reagan era, if not before that. Using Trump as a scapegoat doesn't help anybody, if you're serious about ever fixing this you'd have to go after the entire government and several foreign governments as well at the very least.
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>>1491415
>Using Trump as a scapegoat doesn't help anybody
Trump was the candidate that promised to drain the swamp and fix the pandering to wealthy. Instead he panders to Israel, his jew son-in-law and to the Chabadists who are screwing the economy over for their own benefit.
So yeah, he deserves some criticism.
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>>1491442
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I dunno, maybe it was the spending while he was president?
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2025/11/06/stacey-abrams-founded-organi zation-dissolves-following-ways-and -means-committee-scrutiny/
Do you remember that time his administration paid 2 billion dollars to an organization associated with Stacey Abrams which completely collapsed under scrutiny?
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>>1491450
Didn't you notice it seemed like the digging wasn't a problem when the last guy but it became a problem for the current guy.
Merrick Garland, Joe Biden's Attorney General never had to testify about the Epstein files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_8jHpldg94
He could spend 4.5 hours answering questions, and not one would be about his lack of progress with prosecuting the pedophiles of the files. But now with Donald Trump's Pam Bondi in charge after 4 years it is now a crisis the lack of prosecutions, it is now an urgent matter that needs to be discussed
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>>1491455
Didn't you notice it seemed like the digging wasn't a problem when the last guy was in charge but it became a problem for the current guy when he got in charge?
Merrick Garland, Joe Biden's Attorney General never had to testify about the Epstein files. When he was in charge, it wasn't a problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_8jHpldg94
He could spend 4.5 hours answering questions, and not one would be about his lack of progress with prosecuting the pedophiles of the files. But now with Donald Trump's Pam Bondi in charge after 4 years it is now a crisis the lack of prosecutions, it is now an urgent matter that needs to be discussed
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>>1491460
So you didn't notice that. I don't get why you didn't just answer my question and say "No, I didn't notice how Merrick Garland didn't have to answer questions about Epstein, I didn't care about Epstein back then, so I don't care that Joe Biden and his Attorney general protected pedophiles"
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>>1491546
You lied for years about Biden's health. You people said he was the greatest president ever as prices soared. You people are truly delusional. Only insane people can't see all the good Trump has done for America and that globohomo leftism must be annihilated, first in America and then the rest of the world, whether by PEACE or through CONQUEST.
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>>1491455
Nobody gives a shit about the moral fibre of politicians. We elected Trump to get rid of the Mexicans. As long as he continues to do that it doesn't really matter what he's gotten up to in his personal life.
>But Epstein
Every fucking politician does crooked shit and the vast majority were invovled with Epstein, it doesn't change anything. The primary problems we have right now are browns and communists, anyone who is willing to remove them is an objective good.
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>>1491622
>I don't think anyone is advocating for trickle down economics
https://groundworkcollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Fact-Sh eet-Breaking-Down-the-GOPs-Reverse- Robin-Hood-Tax-Agenda.pdf
>Like nobody is advocating for project 2025
https://apnews.com/article/trump-project-2025-russ-vought-shutdown-2d1 ea5e6e32c583ddf6b8a8164e523c3
then why did republicans vote for someone who does both of those things?
>>1491547
>all the good Trump has done for America
Like..?
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>>1491628
>Like..?
Being the first president in the last thirty years that wasn't actively anti-nativist.
Imagine becoming president and then shitting on the majority ethnic demographic in America. You don't need to be a /pol/fag to see why that's fucking retarded.
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>>1491628
>https://groundworkcollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Fact-S heet-Breaking-Down-the-GOPs-Reverse -Robin-Hood-Tax-Agenda.pdf
Where does Donald Trump say "Vote for me and I'll implement trickle down economics"?
I read through it, and it doesn't actually show any republicans advocating for trickle down economics
>In a post on his Truth Social site Thursday morning, Trump announced he would be meeting with his budget chief, “Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent.”
This doesn't prove that Trump is advocating for Project 2025, it proves he had a meeting.
Now what was the consequences of this meeting? Is there a government agency that project 2025 wanted to shut down, and Trump started trying to shut down after that october meeting last year?
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>>1491632
>Where does Donald Trump say "Vote for me and I'll implement trickle down economics"?
When he implemented the reverse-robinhood taxes of 2017
>This doesn't prove that Trump is advocating for Project 2025,
He literally hired Russ Vought, who is one of two people who made Project 2025, to be in his cabinet.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-is-russ-vought-omb-shutdown-layoffs-t rump-project-2025/
Any other stupid questions?
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>>1491634
So Trump instead said "Vote for me and I'll take from the poor and give to the rich?"
I'd like to see it. You still haven't actually showed a republican politician endorsing trickle down economics, or campaigning on it.
Like you haven't shown Trump endorsing project 2025.
You said he hired someone who worked on it.
Pete Buttigieg wrote a book called Trust: America’s Best Chance. I didn't hear how Joe Biden was going to implement the Pete Buttigieg agenda even though he literally hired the guy who wrote the book on it to his cabinet
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>>1491635
>I'd like to see it.
tRump likes uneducated people.
This is why he hates me.
Ask to the declining economy, the population is growing at a slower rate because we have deported all these criminals, and white people are reproducing at a much reduced rate, so it is natural that the economy is growing slower
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>>1491640
I thought educated people generally cited their sources before making grand claims
You still haven't cited Trump saying "vote for me and I'll implement Trickle Down economics". Or JD Vance. Or George Bush/Dick Cheney saying that.
You haven't gotten me a republican advocating reverse robinhood policy saying "Vote for me and I'll take from the poor and give to the rich"
My initial claim was
"These are straw man positions. Like saying your position on abortion is Anti-life or Anti-choice" and you still haven't shown any evidence which refutes this claim. Of Republican politcians and officials saying people should vote for them so they can implement trickle down economics.
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