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Hortensis

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11. Economists were at first projecting drop in GDP from the shutdown

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Thu Feb 14, 2019, 01:25 PM

Feb 2019

at around 0.5% per month and then around 0.5% each 2 weeks -- twice as bad. For perspective, 2017 growth in GDP was 2.2%.

Don't know how much of this is from that, but next of course will come the tax-scam effect.

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