The data was delayed by the government shutdown, but today the Bureau of Economic Analysis has released the third quarter GDP {DATA HERE} showing a very strong 4.3% growth. The second quarter was also revised up to 3.8%.
Real GDP increased at an annual rate of 4.3 percent in the third quarter, showing increases in consumer spending, increases in exports, and government spending offset by a decrease in investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, decreased boosting the overall GDP number.
This result is similar to the GDP growth rate cycle we previously saw in 2017 as the MAGAnomic policies and investments into the domestic economy begin to show up. While consumer confidence has struggled due to affordability issues, consumer spending going into the holiday season was very strong.
WASHINGTON – US real gross domestic product rose at an annualized rate of 4.3% in the third quarter, exceeding the 3.3% expected and more than the 3.8% growth in the second quarter.
“The increase in real GDP in the third quarter reflected increases in consumer spending, exports, and government spending that were partly offset by a decrease in investment,” the Bureau of Economic Analysis said.
Heather Long, the chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, wrote on X that “AI investment wasn’t a big factor” in the third quarter and instead consumption is a “key driver,” particularly due to spending from wealthier Americans.
Real personal consumer spending rose 3.5% in the third quarter, more than the 2.5% rise in the second quarter. Imports again fell, but not by as much as in the second quarter, declining 4.7% in the third quarter and falling 29.3% in the previous quarter. Meanwhile, exports rose 8.8% in the third quarter, after a 1.8% drop in the previous one. (read more)
The Bureau of Economic Analysis will publish an updated GDP estimate for the third quarter on January 22. I would not be surprised to see another upward revision.
Libs are saying the reports are fake. LOL!
(High Prices, Zero Quality, Zero Service) – what is that?
All the telltale signs of Monopoly is what that is!
Hang in there some of the backwards corporations are still trying to fight President Trump through continued Monopoly pricing (gouging is all they know):
Keep fighting inflation, #1 Only buy what you need! #2 Look around and be creative (look at what you’ve already got). Know that there’s a 99% chance you’ll be disappointed with the corporate Chinese garbage they’re trying to pawn-off at Wal-Mart, Costco, and the whole conga-line of other traitorous distributors (run by ass-holes from the north-east-corridor). #3 Do what’s right! Get your money back. I know that can be difficult with shipping expenses and fuel prices but try – it’s your public duty. Don’t just throw it in a donation pile – that’s how they win. #4 Go step by step, don’t be impatient, don’t ever get ahead of yourself by wishing in more items and compounding the problem (this is where I believe the merchandizing crisis in the United States was a phycological-operation by the Chinese), get-by until you can get your hands on the right item that you need – half the time you’ll discover a better way by doing this and won’t have to make the purchase at all.
Inflation is moving down rapidly, that’s why they’re screaming that it isn’t. I just paid $2.99 for a dozen high quality eggs. They’re at $2.39 a gallon for gas in town, I hear some parts of the Country are under $2.00. The future is very bright indeed. The people are making it happen!
I got rid of 75 percent of my stuff. I only buy what is needed. 2026 is gonna be a complete no buy year for me. I’ve dialed it down to what our needs are. Makes life so much easier.
When I walk into a retail store… all I see is junk. Same with the grocery store.
amen.
Ordered the standard Christmas toys this year for the little ones, online at Amazon. The pictures made them look great, the garbage they delivered was worse than ever. Even the boxes they came in were bad. Yep I was pretty disgusted, with no time to send them back. At least the older ones got decent clothes or a gift card. I’m thoroughly embarrassed and glad they won’t be old enough to remember. All our local conglomerate Dollar Generals jacked the price of snacks and other items a dollar or two. Definitely gouging the rural consumer more now than ever! Bust these scam artists!
Everything ordered from Amazon the past two months has been excellent quality, very low priced and delivered the next day free of charge. I haven’t experienced any of the issues you’ve cited and my with three toddler grandchildren my wife has been buying a lot from Amazon!
That is worrisome, they are experts at putting together fake numbers. Maybe it has clouded their judgement when it comes to true numbers?
And Libs thought fake Biden was President! 🤣
I hate the definition of GDP.
Government takes my money and wastefully spends it. Our spending and Government spending are not equal. They hurt the private sector twice. They decrease it by taking money. And they waste it.
Now I have a question? Does borrowing money we don’t have increase GDP? Spending it adds to the government part.
Is all of Biden’s economy based on spending trillions we don’t have each year?
“Is all of Biden’s economy based on spending trillions we don’t have each year?”
MHO, yes. Govt spends money / sends it to NGOs that steal most of it (MN anyone?).
that money gets spent on retail purchases, which bumps GDP. Not to mention, expanding Big government puts more paychecks in people’s hands which gets spent on consumer purchases.
My nephew lives in NOVA. Lost his private sector job 7 months ago and still no job. The NOVA economy is nearly 100% based on government spending.
As Margaret Thatcher said “socialism works until you run out of other people’s money”.
He needs to stop
Pretending and move.
I found this assessment to be easily understood by a financial cretin ( that being me ) and enlightening as to the future of economic issues we are facing in the U.S.
Metal and Miners substack
Yield Curve Control Is Inevitable: Foreign Capital is Fleeing Treasuries for Factories and Gold!
have to self access, Not a direct link- couldnt get my email address off the attachment
https://open.substack.com/pub/metalsandminers/p/yield-curve-control-is-inevitable
Lot of libs are acting like its economic armageddon, they stopped investing in the Trump economy, meanwhile S&P is up 16% since the election. Don’t bet against DJT.
Full thread for those who don’t tweet…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2003466542730870868.html
Quoting Sean Connery from ‘The Untouchables’—“Here endeth the lesson.”
Government spending is still a major driver at 20-25% of GDP, this hasn’t changed significantly in years.
Fluctuations of a few percent of GDP and/or Government spending proportion of GDP are not significant, the real economy (industry) remains hollowed out, replaced by “health”care (predatory sick care), financialization smoke and mirrors, rents, and the “service” sector (neo-feudalism).
Ref. Federal Government Spending percent of GDP, spotlight on Q3 2025 compared to averages and other data:
“US Federal Government Spending is at 24.38%, compared to 24.59% last quarter and 24.28% last year. ”
Last Value 24.38%
Latest Period Sep 2025
Last Updated Dec 23 2025, 08:47 EST
Long Term Average 20.69%
Average Growth Rate 1.18%
Value from Last Quarter 24.59%
Change from Last Quarter -0.85%
Value from 1 Year Ago 24.28%
Change from 1 Year Ago 0.41%
https://ycharts.com/indicators/govt_spend_gdp
Back to the gist of this article:
If it wasn’t Government spending that drove the 4.3% increase in GDP, what were the major drivers? Here’s one:
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/q3-gdp-unexpectedly-surges-2-year-high-soaring-health-insurance-spending
“Health”care (predatory sick care) is already over 21% of GDP.
You can spin it all you want, this is not a healthy economy.
Sorry all this winning is happening to you.
You will be ok. Promise.
Love this!
Unfortunately, Arizona gas prices are still very high, near $3.50 / gal and not fluctuating widely.
Gas Buddy reports regular 87 octane at $2.19 in the Tucson area and $2.75 in the Pheniox area
Bought it at 2.35 outside Tucson, so we’re slowly making progress in this corrupt, crooked state.
But yeah, in the cities, it’s around 3 bucks.
Wow on Arizona? In CT it’s $2.66.
2.75 in Palm Beach County today!
2.53 in Jensen Beach FLA (Martin County) yesterday afternoon.
$2:39 outside St Paul MN at Costco yesterday. Had to do a double take to make sure I got it right.
Did Arizona raise their gas taxes?
Must have.
In Phoenix we were down to $1.79 gal. Before Biden stole election.
Now $3.15, N.Phoenix, yesterday.
Hobbs has to steal, get $$$ somehow.
Also
Newscum shut down some supply? Not sure if that part is accurate.
Generally speaking, Arizona ends up raising gas taxes despite not having any upside for consumers. I’m thinking the failure to see any relief in this case is a supply side issue. Over the Trump 45 admin, I’d purchase gas below $2.00 and rarely over $3 bucks.
Your gas is gonna go even higher you can thank California for that Gavin Newscum
I live in Western PA. Gas has been between and $3.10 and $3.50 for the entire year. Hasn’t dropped at all.
PA has had a run of wreched governance. We moved 13 years ago and have never looked back. By moving we have saved over 209,000$ in school taxes.
Commie gov keeps taxing gas and cigs at a feverish rate to fund the govt pensions.
I got gas for $2.19 at Costco in New Orleans.
$2.21 at Walmart in Nacogdoches, TX this morning.
California $4.00 to $5.00 or more for 87 octane.
And Newsom helped provoke two more major oil refineries to shut now – Phillips66 in SoCal and Valero in NorCal (Benicia).
Economists are predicting gas will jump another $1.50 a gallon here, possibly more. Plus airline tickets (jet fuel).
Keep in mind that everyone can buy gasoline at the same market, it is the taxes that creates most of the price differential. Maybe California could recover some of its oil resources and become a net exporter of energy, making a positive contribution the US and benefitting those who live in California. You just need to not be crazy.
It will be a loooong time before that common sense plan is considered. California is a long way from hitting bottom. It will hurt a lot when it happens.
paid $1.89 for a gallon yesterday with a .10 cent reward card discount in Pueblo, Co….still @ $1.99 pretty darn good!
AZ gets a lot of their gasoline from CA and prices in AZ started rising after CA closed down most of their refineries!
We heard the same, also tax….but before Biden we paid $1.79.
N. Phoenix.
California produces a lot of goods that they export throughout the USA. The takeover of that state was well thought out.
Arizona could try to reduce gas taxes—when Hobbs is pushed out of office. Still, our fuel dependencies need to be addressed.
Seems to me that AZ gets most of it’s gas from Cali. I’m guessing just wait until 2026 when Cali refineries close due to government overlords. My brother complains about the gas prices in Mesa too. Here in Middle TN my gas has been $2.69 for the last few months. And I’m in a high price area. Further south of me it’s at least 30 cents cheaper.
$2.15 – Greenville SC
Tucson is $2.39, Camp Verde Is $3.05, Flagstaff is $2.89. Phoenix is still high!
I did my part this year.
“Trump and other geniuses got it right!” LOL! Love it! Our President is brilliant and he’s surrounded himself with a team of the same! Now if our propaganda press will only report it. MAGA is s beautiful thing. Great report on this Christmas Eve, Eve! Heavenly Father, continue to bless this great land of ours!
My electric bill went down. But, the grocery store is a different beast. Especially when you can only eat beef. I ration it out and only eat one meal a day. Hopefully 2026 will give us some relief.
“Expected” in pretending-world was the mantra of Trump-bad, everything’s-his-fault, talking-down, doom-and-misery sent out by many sources to make people frightened and make their predictions come true.
As in Trump-45 they are continually fake-surprised that tariffs don’t cause an immediate price like to consumers, actual production instead of money printing produces real wealth, and jobs for Americans actually benefit Americans. Crazy stuff.
No president has ever been as correct on how to run the economy as President Trump. And, like all things Trump, it exposes the truth on every other politicians policies. I think he is hated more for this than anything else. They know he brings prosperity for US citizens and they can’t stand that.
The only reason the economy did so well under Biden is he “borrowed” $3 trillion a year. The National Debt increased from $24 trillion to $36 trillion under his presidency.
That’s unsustainable.
The transition to Trump’s economy could have been rocky but Trump is a very stable genius.
The autopen years were good for the people closest to where the newly created money was injected into the economy. Not so much for everyone else.
Reference the Cantillion Effect.
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-cantillion-effect
https://fee.org/articles/the-cantillon-effect-because-of-inflation-we-re-financing-the-financiers/
Congrats on that national championship.
The real litmus test will be how people “feel” the economy is doing. Right now they don’t think it is doing well at all. By summer of 2026 there is a good chance that will reverse if the Trump admin can keep from shooting itself in the foot. Get rid of Susie and keep Trump off of his iphone and things will boom.
Who is this “they” you speak of? All the evidence is in front of you, and yet the glass remains half empty.
All I see in the “don’t” category is a bunch of people telling everyone how “everyone” feels badly, followed by real data that says the opposite.
Then there’s the “yeah, but” black-pill crowd who will never admit any win but only focus on what they haven’t gotten YET.
None of the doom crowd will dare to talk about what life in December 2025 would be like under the Obama team’s 4th term finishing off their “fundamental change” with more-than-open borders, continued political persecution, wars raging on not to mention whatever they intended to do next with Z and Ukr. “Yeah, but…”
don’t forget all those legal brown citizens being disappeared /S
All of this fantastic news will be for naught if we don’t cut spending. It appears President Trump doesn’t have the stomach for it?
Where are the rescission bills for $220 Billion in codified cuts identified by DOGE?? Only 22% of Elon Musks goal.
Now President Trump wants to build more targets (military destroyers) easily taken out to by 3,000 cheap drones?
WHERE IS THE NEW EMERGENCY CENSUS to remove millions of illegal immigrant voters and flip dozens of seats??!!
Is Johnson blocking this? Wiles?
The DOGE cuts totaled up to only about 3% of one year Federal budget, but the yearly percentage is even less than that because they are projected to take effect over years.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doge-delivers-massive-214-billion-taxpayer-savings-so-far
DOGE was clearly a trojan horse; Trump, Musk, and the DOGE wunderkind had to know in advance that the claimed raison d’être (reducing Government spending and improving efficiency) was nonsense. 3% is not significant, and the Government does not respond to rapid major job cuts by becoming efficient – in fact it becomes even more dysfunctional.
So what were the apparent real purposes?
Judging by outcomes:
1. Psyop: Create fear and anxiety in Government employees and contractors.
2. Politically targeted cuts.
3. Posturing.
Importantly:
4. Create chaos and decimate functional leadership and experience in the DoD Civilian workforce, subverting the US military.
Some Observations: spending is a sign of confidence in the future, here in the UK it’s the exact opposite, with Labour’s anti-business budget only gnawing at the economy, whereas by next April it will have savaged it. So see private spending as a take-to-the bank opinion poll (something Leftists hate, which is why they frame taxation as a fair division of wealth).
Secondly, this improvement is only going to get stronger as the policies followed from day 1 start to synchronise, time therefore is on Trump’s side, hence the Lefts failing battle to control the narrative, or shift it to ‘scandals’.
Thirdly, the Left’s strategy of making ‘affordability’ the benchmark for success is going to come back now to haunt them, as prices invariably fall, as products and services created in the periods of dropping costs (especially energy bills) will start to appear. The reverse of what happened in 2020, and which SD warned Treepers about (saved us hundreds of pounds BTW, though my wife wondered why I was buying so much rice, pasta and cleaning products!).
Fourthly, the disparity in prices between Blue and Red States will become even more obvious, playing in to a narrative that should help the Republicans in the Mid-terms. Vote Democrat to worsen improving affordability is not a vote winner!
Finally, it’s another blow in the narrative of the competence of the professional managers of the economy, which is why no doubt Blueshite is full of, aksually comments and lame conspiracy theories.
I’ll say it again, Team Trump’s strategy was not to obsess about the mid-terms and go for short-term populist measures which rarely run the course, but a long-term strategy that dispensed with the MSM’s artificial 100 day deadlines for progress, in favour of Day One decisions designed for a long-term, multi-phased strategy.
The numbers are fluffed by AI and data center spending.
“Capex intentions remain depressed, suggesting investment outside of AI-linked sectors remains weak,” he told clients in a note seen by Fortune.
Deutsche Bank said much the same thing in a recent note discussing whether AI was a bubble. “Investment in AI-related sectors is critical to GDP growth [and the] U.S. would be close to recession this year if it weren’t for tech-related spending, as other spending has flatlined post-Covid,” analysts Adrian Cox and Stefan Abrudan wrote.
“He told” — who told? As for the rest, one quick search on Stefan Abrudan shows that “AI bubble is about to pop, doom, doom” is the title and content of everything he’s published over the last year.
Speaking of “Blueshite aksually comments and lame conspiracy theories”…
What a difference a day makes. With Obama/Biden it was always unexpectedly DOWN. Over and Over. Then they just changed measurements, definitions, or just plain lied. Unexpectedly UP. WOW.
I am greedy get several thousand more federal workers gone, Get a bunch of FBI, DOJ, and CIA gone. If Bondi can’t get charges and arrests, get a bunch of em to GITMO. God Bless MAGA and President TRump.
That was quarter 3 the summer. Manufacturing & Hiring have slowed down since while inflation is still close to 3% to add on to the horrible price increases over the past 4 years. Additionally, most of the increases in consumer spending are not by the middle and low incomers who are looking for value and private label to save money.
Take the class-warfare “K-shaped economy” mantra back to ActBlue where it belongs…
Grocery prices in AZ haven’t come down much at all except on a few select items.
Remember, drastic reduction in prices to pre plandemic levels would be deflation. We will probably never see those prices again. It’s just increase rate is not as much as before.
Grocery prices will not start coming down significantly until the next harvest cycle when the reduced costs of fuel & fertilizer kick in.
Not to be contrarian, but the increased income that I earned this year and saved is STILL earmarked for local, state and federal taxes, all $2500 of it.
And I will still be deeply in the hole to the feds when all is said and done.
SPIT!!!!
I’ll have to join you, Chris….
It’s all in the small details and breakdowns.
Take a look…
Thank you, Betsy jones. In truth, even though I earned every penny of my business income, because I am quantified as ‘low income’, I qualify for Mass Health and by extension, LIHEAP, “Low Income Heating Assistance Program,” never having applied for the latter.
Both of theses subsidies are a small return on the money extorted from me by all levels of government.
I would like to the see the size of government SLASHED, and ALL employment replacement human trafficking ROUTED OUT of the United States.
Thank you for acknowledging my concerns, Betsy jones.
Merry Christmas,
Chris
As noted frequently on this website, how much of the 4.3% is Main Street and how much is Wall Street? While it’s nice the crap news can’t spin this much against Trump, which is nice……is this number a good number for the middle class?
Not sure how much is going to Main Street, but AI/data center spending has fluffed the numbers.
“Capex intentions remain depressed, suggesting investment outside of AI-linked sectors remains weak,” he told clients in a note seen by Fortune.
Deutsche Bank said much the same thing in a recent note discussing whether AI was a bubble. “Investment in AI-related sectors is critical to GDP growth [and the] U.S. would be close to recession this year if it weren’t for tech-related spending, as other spending has flatlined post-Covid,” analysts Adrian Cox and Stefan Abrudan wrote.
and copy-pasta. Very nice.
I read the opposite somewhere, that the AI infrastructure build out spend has not yet hit.
If we remove the spending for data centers, the numbers do not look so rosy.
From Fortune.com
“But some analysts are starting to worry about how much of that growth is concentrated in AI.
A recent note from Pantheon Macroeconomics said that private fixed investment—a measure of how much companies are spending—”is rising only due to AI-related spending.” Analyst Oliver Allen published a chart this morning showing that all other private fixed investment is actually in decline:
“Capex intentions remain depressed, suggesting investment outside of AI-linked sectors remains weak,” he told clients in a note seen by Fortune.
Deutsche Bank said much the same thing in a recent note discussing whether AI was a bubble. “Investment in AI-related sectors is critical to GDP growth [and the] U.S. would be close to recession this year if it weren’t for tech-related spending, as other spending has flatlined post-Covid,” analysts Adrian Cox and Stefan Abrudan wrote.
Three copies in one thread?
Yes, because factual comments on these threads get buried and then ignored. Cheering on economic numbers is great and all, but understanding the underlying components is quite important.
I am in a data center town. If all of the planned data centers come to fruition in my area, it will be over $60 billion. The amount of money being spent on them is staggering and definitely impacts short term GDP. The issue is that those projects will only employ about 40 people per facility long term. Short term burst of spending, but no lasting impact on Main Street. If the AI bubble goes “pop”, then that contribution to GDP goes “pop” with it.
I guess in any good quarter you could subtract the market leaders, and call it a subpar quarter.
As Yogi said, “predictions are hard especially about the future”. Remember DJT’s buy signal, it was a winner.
Apparently predicting the future is not so hard for POTUS – S&P up 20% since his April 8 buy signal.
Data centers are for enterprise computing not just AI. There’s a big difference!
Most of the data center spending is by Amazon AWS, Alphabet and Microsoft for enterprise computing not AI. Amazon, for example has over $200 billion in RPO backorders for EC customers who are typically Fortune 500 companies. In fact, Amazon earns more profit, about 50% of $100 billion in total income, on it’s data centers than it makes from Prime! Same with Alphabet and Microsoft. Wall Street talking heads like to conflate AI and EC in order to manipulate the stock market!
“Unexpected”…..lol.
Part of what we voted for. Great job, Mr. President!
Please stop, I can’t stand all the good news.
It will be revised up by the next quarter or two.
People going broke paying for health care was by far the largest contributor to the higher than expected GDP report. What’s good for the economy is not always good for the people. Be careful what you brag about.
go back to 1st qtr. all that capital investment is just beginning to come on line. my business touches many sectors across economy and everyone is bullish on 2026.
2026 is going to be a blowout year according to Secretary Lutnick.
It is so good for America to have this kind of talent in the Cabinet.
And yet again, the “expert” economists are surprised yet again…
Investment manager: All quotes:
If that 4.3 percent number were genuinely believed, we’d see a very specific almost textbook market response.
The U.S. dollar would rally triumphantly. Global equities would surge. And defensive assets like gold, would plummet as all that risk aversion just evaporated.
If the U.S. is booming at 4.3 percent and Europe is basically stagnant, the U.S. dollar should be strengthening a lot. It should be a one-way bet. The DXY, that’s the U.S. dollar index, measuring it against its peers, it actually faded after the announcement. Faded.
But the really profound signal, the one that stands out, it comes from the Canadian dollar. That Canadian dollar comparison is it’s one of the quietest, but also one of the loudest markers of skepticism. It just cuts right through the American exceptionalism story.
The Canadian dollar is up a remarkable 4.84 percent against the U.S. dollar over the past year. And think about that context. Right. Canada’s own government is describing its economy as being in economic decline. So you have a struggling neighbor whose currency is just comprehensively outperforming the currency of the supposedly booming 4.3 percent U.S. economy. That’s not just a sign of skepticism. No, it’s a firm, consistent markdown of the entire U.S. growth story by the FX market. It’s a vote.
If investors trusted this boom, they’d be rotating out of defensive assets. Why hold safety when the economy is roaring? Exactly. And yet gold and silver are soaring and they lifted after the BEA announcement, which signals that a major part of the investment community is actively hedging. And they aren’t hedging against a normal recession. They’re hedging against policy risk. Or what some people call financial repression. The government artificially depressing yields or managing data to hide some underlying instability. So gold going up after a Good News GDP report is a clear vote of no confidence in the data’s integrity. They have a massive red flag.
Just the briefest of trawls on the interwebs shows your analysis is, to put it politely, somewhat flawed. For example the strength of the CAD is partly explained by the US stock markets buoyant mood helping the risk-sensitive currency, there’s also an improvement in Canadian export earnings, due to oil price rises, and the reduced fear of the impact of tariffs.
Similarly, gold and silver prices are high because the inflationary pressure on the US economy is judged to be reducing, and concomitantly the possibility of interest rate cuts increasing. Both cause and effect are reducing the threat of restrictive monetary policy, which is traditionally a good environment for precious metals to be operating in.
But sure, Trump is hiding or manipulating damaging economic data, just like he’s hiding all those photos of him cavorting with minors on Epstein island, whilst chatting to a Russian agent about the secret server in Trump Tower.
Not my analysis. All quotes.
Ditto, ask 100 economists and you get 100 different answers, the agenda of the asker is revealed in which answers they choose to select.
A lot of the predictions were also based on weaker US GDP growth, so their models are either going to have to ignore or twist reality, or adapt sharpish to the new situation. I expect plenty of ‘unexpectedly, surprising’ and ‘beating most predictions’ in the next few months, including the headlines in November.
The GDP numbers were the second set of excellent numbers this past week. Thursday, BLS reported that prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, had only gone up by 2.7% from December 2024 to November 2025.
The unemployment rate has been ticking upward, despite rising employment numbers, but that’s because the labor force participation rate (the percentage of people either working or looking for work) rises when wage-rates rise. According to a White House press release, the increase in employment has been in the private sector and with American-born workers.
YAY!!!! Go America First!!! Winning feels so right 🙂
Wartime economy
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“Kudlow is right, Trump’s economy will achieve 5% GDP next year.”
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With oil and gas prices trending down, spending down and an end to the war in Ukraine would seal the deal on Larry’s predicted 5% GDP in 2026!
Whatever the reasons (I credit President Trump) , my better half had to go out today to get a pet Rx and a few food items for the weekend and she came back 3 hours later saying that the traffic and crowds at all local stores up in our small suburban town including the super Wal-Mart was heavier than she has ever seen it since we moved to this area in 1978.
I have never known her to exaggerate about traffic and she rarely mentions it, so it must’ve been crazy. Yes, it’s Christmas in 2 days but she’s been out on Dec 23rd in previous years and never saw this much traffic. We are 25 miles from the Baltimore city line as the crow flies, so we are somewhat rural.
This is great news and shows that Trump really needs to focus on the home front where he is having great success. Stop with the various wars we are involved with around the world and re-invest in the good old USA. Lots of things still need attention right here, in spite of Lindsey Graham’s bleatings for incessant war.
you know you can do both at the same time and that is what he is doing. These kind of posts continue to dismay me. You can just way a wand over the USA without taking on the world economy also. It just ain’t gonna happen. He started with the world, which he should have with tariffs, and now, like his economic team all said, the benefits now will be seen.
Simply cracks me up how every single after-the-fact revision during the Trump economies were/are always upwards because the crooked prognosticators are always telling the public the Trump economy is terrible. Two weeks later, they can’t hide the real numbers but the bad news has already been reported nationally.
I can remember the exact opposite happening during the oblowme 8 year shitshow regime and Rush Limbaugh calling it out for the gaslighting it is and was.
Donald J. Trump
Best. President. Ever.
It’s not even close.
I heard a guy whose name I hadn’t heard before, worked in Trump 1 administration, tell Bannon the Fed has posted on their website a plan to purchase US Treasuries at the rate of $40B per month.
They also appointed a bunch more positions to 5 year terms.
If true, how can this be anything other than subverting President Trump’s efforts? “Trillions are at stake.”
Can announce, by the lack of money in my bank, I did my part in spending.
MAGA Fabulous!
Pass the Winnamins and Cheetos!!
When you read the fine print you see, like the inflation report, this is a “guestimate” due to the govt shutdown stopping data collection. Unlike most here I don’t see the fed workforce as a bunch of commie-symps. Mostly they want to keep their heads down and survive to retirement. So when it comes to making a “guestimate” they realize how to avoid the next round of head-chopping.
Meanwhile, yes we all know the price of eggs and gas is down. If that’s all I had to buy life would be great.
fuel costs for shipping produce to market should be reflected in lower prices unless middle men are raising profit margins.