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To: DoodleDawg

It was growing slowly.
You see this in multiple related data sets, such as manufacturing employment.
The problem was it was extremely slow growth compared to other recoveries.


4 posted on 08/22/2019 7:53:52 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: buwaya

...and IIRC, it was growing at a rate below population growth - which means functionally shrinking.


14 posted on 08/22/2019 8:09:28 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: buwaya

Manufacturing shrunk significantly under Obama but the fed simply reclassified other work as manufacturing.


20 posted on 08/22/2019 8:25:01 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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