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Large scale military conflict would boost US GDP by a lot. Other than that, not really.
by creaghpatr 7y ago
Large scale military conflict would boost US GDP by a lot. Other than that, not really.
- java-man 7y agoradio isotope cleaning services, canned fresh air industry, underground bunker manufacturing will definitely see uptick.
- chocolatebunny 7y agoWait, what? Do you have any evidence of that? I would have thought any increase in global instability would hurt most markets.
- philipov 7y ago<joke_explainer> Gross Domestic Product is a measure of economic mass, not market health. The GP is implying that a large conflict would stimulate the production of wartime equipment such as weapons, which are very expensive and would (potentially) represent a large boost to our gross domestic product. The mobilization of the economy for wartime production during World War 2 is often attributed as ending the Great Depression because it put everyone to work in a command economy that superseded the depressed markets of the time. </joke_explainer>
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