Ah, taking the Russian approach, I see
Yep:
“Reduced transparency in official statistics is perhaps the most troubling aspect of disbanding FESAC,” wrote Claudia Sahm, a former Federal Reserve economist, at Bloomberg on March 11. “Cutting off agency staff from external advisers creates an environment where political interference could occur much more easily—and go undetected. With political officials such as Lutnick arguing publicly that GDP should exclude government spending, it is especially important to have external, independent experts.”
Oh yes, most definitely.
Welp…
If you don’t test for recession, there can’t be any recession, right…???
🙄 🙄 🤡 🤡
Do they think we won’t realize it when people can’t get a job, and prices are going sky high?
They do. Because they already got away with making the US fail to realize a whole bunch. About project 2025. About Trump. School shootings. Class solidarity. Etc. The US is pliable because 50% of the country just needs someone on Fox to tell them how okay it is for them to get fucked, and they’ll just let it happen.
Problem is, there are clear limits on how far this can be pushed. And these idiots are just about to discover what those limits are. But they are without question idiots, and certainly stupid enough to not see how this is going to effect them.
When people can’t to feed themselves, that’s when the riots will start. I’m not looking forward to it, but it looks like they’re going for a complete system breakdown.
I’m not so sure. Republicans do have a persecution fetish, but that’s specifically tuned not to apply to Republican leaders. Instead, the anger will be pointed at minorities. Many will take the bait because it’s what they do as a bloc every single time.
Nah, a few days without food and people will storm the White house. There isnt a country in the world that will literally starve to death.
It’ll turn nasty long before then, when they’re told (again) that it’s all the fault of those ‘immigunts’ who are taking their jobs and eating their food.
Once that bloodbath starts, few of those involved will think to change target, and most of those who aren’t will be hunkering down, waiting for it to blow over.
I agree with others below that the GOP is at the limit of what they can get their followers to believe in once they can’t eat. Most are already suffering, and expect a quick turn around. Instead, we’re about to get Great Depression 2: Trumps BS Boogaloo. The violence that follows will overwhelmingly be directed at those that control every branch of the government with an iron grip and failed to make anything better despite it. Historically, this has always been the course of events.
Instead, the anger will be pointed at minorities.
For a time. How long until “Democrats” are the ones that are taking their jobs and food.
And I don’t mean the politicians.
But they are without question idiots
That’s what I’ve been saying all along.
Controlling information has always, and will continue to work.
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you and many educate dpeople would know. its to keep thier supporters stupid and ignorant.
We’ve been in a recession. The word you’re looking for now is depression.
Not really, maybe a blip of something in 2021-2022, but generally the US economy as a whole has been doing alright - Real GDP. Individual people though have been getting beaten up recently, but boy is that about to get worse.
Wait… I thought Trump was going to have inflation and grocery prices fixed on day 1
I know it’s been said, but it bears repeating, for the willfully ignorant in the back
He said he was being sarcastic.
They are already doing it. Look at the illegal immigration numbers, which they released with no documentation for either Biden’s ludicrously high numbers to Hitlerapig’s ludicrously low numbers.
HitlerPig wouldn’t release a single number for anything without sweetening it in his favor.
Everything from this administration should be assumed to be a blatant lie.
We know…we all sadly knew it all along.
Of course
Just do what Biden did and redefine what a recession is to make it look less gloomy
Do what you do and redefine reality to fit your propaganda model.
Well, actually it was Obama that redefined recession. Biden redefined unemployment.
This is like pointing out grammatical errors in the Titanic’s breakfast menu.
Wrong. A 2 second search proves you wrong.
It’s odd that people here mock voters for “pRiCe oF EgGs” but don’t realize that it was shorthand for the economy being shit for the vast majority of Americans. Obviously Trump isn’t better for the economy, but there were fundamental problems like the high cost of living that people were desperate to get out of and desperate people do desperate things which can be seen as stupid.
Our economy has been an inflatable castle patched with band-aids all over, especially since 2008, but the foundations for this setup was laid down decades before that. Touting higher consumer spending numbers (because people have to pay more for everything), lower unemployment (because people are kicked off unemployment and have to work shitty gig work), or the dumb stock market (which has been pumped with massive money printing) is as dishonest as outright hiding numbers.
Don’t know why you’re getting down voted. This is EXACTLY what Biden did.
Just shows people cannot handle the truth so they down vote instead. Smh.
I posted elsewhere, but I think the real issue is that it really didn’t look like a recession. While technically it was a recession by the two negative quarters definition, if you look at real GDP it’s barely a blip.
I suspect at the time the concern was that calling it a recession would have impacted the recovery. Not that I think that’s a good excuse, but they werent hiding the data. With Trump, he’s trying to hide the downturn rather than trying to rally the recovery.
Calling out Biden here is a very “both sides” centrist kinda mindset.
That’s the BlueMAGA cult mindset
