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Don't Look Now, But the U.S. Economy's Kinda ... Booming
Hotair ^ | 05/30/25 | Ed Morrrisey

Posted on 05/30/2025 7:30:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/30/2025 7:30:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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This guy says we're doomed....but I do believe he's a never Trumper.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14766139/jamie-dimon-warning-trade-china-enemy-within.html

2 posted on 05/30/2025 7:31:56 PM PDT by ealgeone
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3 posted on 05/30/2025 7:35:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

unexpected...


4 posted on 05/30/2025 7:37:18 PM PDT by abb
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To: SeekAndFind

So great!


5 posted on 05/30/2025 7:38:40 PM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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To: SeekAndFind

TRUMP WAS RIGHT AGAIN! WHEN WILL THIS WINNING STOP?


6 posted on 05/30/2025 7:42:18 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Only thing that scares me now is my age number. I am older than Biden, but in very good health!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s simple: Just know that the opposite of what liberals predict, is what will happen.


7 posted on 05/30/2025 7:43:53 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: SeekAndFind

Things are a’popping here. Tourists all over the place and it’s just beginning.


8 posted on 05/30/2025 7:47:30 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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Economy ping


9 posted on 05/30/2025 7:50:22 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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1) -0.3% GDP is not booming.

2) Yes, that number will elevate in Q2 as the import surge due to tariff anticipation reverses. Today’s PCE was mild because it’s pretty much impossible to surge inflation if you have negative GDP, for any reason.

3) As imports elevate in Q2, they will do so at the tariff price. GDP is real GDP, meaning, inflation adjusted. The surge in inflation on the upcoming imports is going to restrain the reversal of that 0.3%.

Pretty hard to declare this “booming”, and none of that even counts a potential explosion when the debt ceiling doesn’t get raised.


10 posted on 05/30/2025 8:08:26 PM PDT by Owen
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Bfl


11 posted on 05/31/2025 1:02:42 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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Bfl


12 posted on 05/31/2025 1:02:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: Owen

You are correct. The economy isn’t booming. It is coasting, so the stagflation continues.

I see it as more everything has been disrupted and we don’t yet know where all the dust is going to settle. In fact, we won’t know for likely close to 18 months.

I do consider this more an inflection point where it no longer can be called Biden’s economy. June 2025 is now President Trump’s economy. There may be a few items left to tweek, but it is Trump’s from here on out.


13 posted on 05/31/2025 2:31:39 AM PDT by EBH (We haven't run out of road, the can rusted away. )
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It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The Democrats and their media had their talking points all lined up (and are still bringing up the price of eggs) to complain about inflation under the Trump administration.

However, facts cancel their talking points and the consumer knows they are lying. Not only are gas prices down, but grocery prices (including eggs) are coming down as well.

I’m seeing more and more of those grocery shelf stickers that say “New lower price” on items I commonly buy at the grocery store.

The media keeps telling us that tariffs are going to increase prices (any day now) but I’ve yet to see that happen in my area. Even avocados, another item the left seems deeply concerned about, have not increased in price.


14 posted on 05/31/2025 3:05:24 AM PDT by CFW
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“Despite Tariff-flation Fearmongering, Fed’s Favorite Inflation Indicator Tumbles To Four-Year Low”

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/despite-tariff-flation-fearmongering-feds-favorite-inflation-indicator-tumbles-four-year


15 posted on 05/31/2025 3:08:53 AM PDT by CFW
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To: SeekAndFind

It might be bad for those whose paychecks have been funded by deficit government spending, but it seems to be doing fine for the rest of us.


16 posted on 05/31/2025 4:43:02 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for the US and President Trump)
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“TRUMP WAS RIGHT AGAIN! WHEN WILL THIS WINNING STOP?”

As soon as Chief Justice Roberts and his merry band of robed tyrants can figure out their legal master plans of interference.


17 posted on 05/31/2025 6:43:51 AM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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“TRUMP WAS RIGHT AGAIN! WHEN WILL THIS WINNING STOP?”

As soon as Chief Justice Roberts and his merry band of robed tyrants can figure out their legal master plans of interference.


18 posted on 05/31/2025 6:47:54 AM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: simpson96

“No! No! Things are terrible, I say! Now you just stop saying those things!!” - Jessica Tarlov & co.


19 posted on 05/31/2025 6:57:10 AM PDT by daler
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To: SeekAndFind; FRiends

There will be additional data available come June 11, 2025 for the Consumer Price Index:

Next Release

May 2025 CPI data are scheduled to be released on June 11, 2025, at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Time.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/

I’m going to remain calm and keep living below my means, as always. ;)


20 posted on 05/31/2025 7:03:50 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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