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DemocratSinceBirth

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6. Random points

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 27, 2018, 09:15 AM

Jul 2018

1) Anyway these numbers are subject to revision and that number might have been inflated by hording ahead of Trump's tariffs.
2) Wage growth is stagnant.
3) We are seeing signs of incipient inflation
4) Housing is soft. This can portend the ominous.
5) We have seen this movie before, one or two good GDP quarters before they revert to their recent level of 2%. Water rises to its level.

Where do you see GDP going ?

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