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The facts say differently: GDP growing around 3%. US net exports up about $55b. Unemployment 50 year low. Minority unemployment record low. Non-farm payrol
by rrggrr 7y ago
The facts say differently:
GDP growing around 3%.
US net exports up about $55b.
Unemployment 50 year low.
Minority unemployment record low.
Non-farm payrolls up by about 3%.
Business confidence (Fed Ind Businesses) highest in 45 years.
(sources)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/trump-administration-accomplishme...
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/07/how-trump-has-set-economic-growth-on-fire.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/07/how-trump-has-set-economic-g...
- youarewrongstfu 7y agoNone of which has anything to do with Trump's policies and, in fact, these numbers would improve if the fuckbag Republicans would all spontaneously die and leave the actual adults to their work.
- 0xDEFC0DE 7y agoDon't forget that yield curve inversion
- jtx22 7y agoIndeed, good work by the Trump admin. here.
- mikeash 7y agoContinuing the trends of the last decade.
- awinder 7y ago2018 was not a great year on the markets (regardless of feel-good business confidence in 2018), farms & manufacturing are getting killed by the tariffs. Your facts & my facts coexist in the real world.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoFarms are going to see a big turnaround after China's hog famine this next year.
- amanaplanacanal 7y agoPresidents (of both parties) like to take credit for those kinds of economic results. In reality the federal reserve and what they are doing with interest rates and the money supply is mostly responsible for economic cycling, not the president.
- rrggrr 7y agoThis is not correct. My profession put(s) me in a position to work directly with CEO's nationwide. Trump's election and his policies moved these folks to invest in people, plants and equipment. Fed policy had nothing to do with it. Believe what you will, but I'm relaying to you the ground truth.