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edhopper

(37,444 posts)
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 10:36 AM Dec 2025

About the surprizing GDP growth of 4.3% [View all]

The Economy still sucks under Trump, and they are doing everything they can to destroy it.

The devil is in the details. From the N Y Times:

Much of the growth in the third quarter came from military spending. Total corporate profits rose by $166 billion in the third quarter, compared with an increase of $6.8 billion in the previous quarter, a sharp improvement. But business investment, which has been fueled by the build-out of A.I. systems, notably cooled.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/us-economy-consumer-spending.html

Spending money on ICE an blowing up fishermen is not going to save the Economy.

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