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WATCH: Look at the Stupid Way CNN Covered the ‘Quirky’ GDP Contraction News
NewsBusters ^ | 4/28/2022 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 04/28/2022 2:00:48 PM PDT by JV3MRC

CNN’s Matt Egan spun himself into a whirlpool of insanity trying to downplay bad economic growth.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that Gross Domestic Product contracted 1.4 percent in Q1, which was the complete opposite of economists who estimated a 1 percent increase, a 2.4 percentage point miss. U.S. GDP taking a nosedive was worsened by the 40-year-high inflation currently plaguing the economy and drilling holes in Americans’ wallets. Janney Chief Fixed Income Strategist Guy LeBas summed up the significance of the GDP falling into the negative against expectations of growth: “Nasty miss.” Egan tried to minimize the political damage on the April 28 edition of CNN’s New Day : “We shouldn’t panic about these numbers.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; cnn; economy; gdp; mattegan

1 posted on 04/28/2022 2:00:48 PM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Panicking is bad. Preparing accordingly is appropriate.


2 posted on 04/28/2022 2:03:00 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: JV3MRC

When the economy goes into official recession in 3 more months, CNN and MSNBC will follow the lead of Biden and Psaki and most democrats, and will blame the recession on the bad economy they inherited from Trump, with Putin and global warming and Covid getting part of the blame, and republicans also getting a share of the blame for not passing Build Back Better.


3 posted on 04/28/2022 2:06:39 PM PDT by adorno
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To: griswold3

Spinning the news to pretend the economic situation isn’t as bad as it is even worse.


4 posted on 04/28/2022 2:15:25 PM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: griswold3

And how do you prepare?


5 posted on 04/28/2022 2:27:42 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: JV3MRC

Their first instinct is to lie in this case to get past the midterms.


6 posted on 04/28/2022 2:29:28 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: adorno

This is faster than Carter brought us into a recession - just from memory. Anyone know?


7 posted on 04/28/2022 2:31:13 PM PDT by GOPJ (Gumballs and illegals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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To: luckystarmom
And how do you prepare?

1. Fire the Democrats.

2. Party.

8 posted on 04/28/2022 2:37:59 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: JV3MRC

The thing is that you can directly point to Biden policies that caused this coming recession. Shutting off oil and gas drilling as well as pipelines. Getting involved in a European war. Extending the shut down beyond all sense. And of course there is the over spending causing the fed to raise interest rates faster than the market can adjust. And that is not even getting to the question of confidence. People have none.


9 posted on 04/28/2022 2:43:09 PM PDT by poinq
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To: JV3MRC
The chyron for the segment was extremely misleading: “U.S. Economic Growth Rate Slowed Sharply in First Quarter.” That’s an interesting way of glossing over the fact that negative growth isn’t really growth at all

This is leftwing political people we're talking about, people who say that budgets increasing but by less than the left wanted them to are really deep deep budget cuts.

The start of a recession is just 'less growth than we'd have liked' to a crowd of committed propegandists like them.

10 posted on 04/28/2022 2:50:34 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: JV3MRC

The Biden Recession.

Hopefully not The Biden Depression.


11 posted on 04/28/2022 2:51:10 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob
The Biden Recession. Hopefully not The Biden Depression.

Only if he doesn’t make it 4 years.

12 posted on 04/28/2022 2:58:16 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: JV3MRC

What did the stock market do?


13 posted on 04/28/2022 2:59:46 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative )
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To: JV3MRC

“We shouldn’t panic about these numbers.”

Just the CNN+ numbers.


14 posted on 04/28/2022 3:00:24 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: JV3MRC

-1.4%
-1.4%
-1.4%


15 posted on 04/28/2022 3:03:11 PM PDT by cranked
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To: JV3MRC

It was not stupid on the part of CNN. It was very carefully contrived to hide the real meaning of the numbers.


16 posted on 04/28/2022 3:13:58 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Freee-dame

CNN getting something wrong.......give them a PLUS grade.

Sarc

CNN is filled with morons which is why nobody.....NOBODY....watches


17 posted on 04/28/2022 3:36:06 PM PDT by SteelPSUGOP
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