Posted on 02/20/2026 5:49:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Economic growth cooled near the end of 2025 while inflation held firm, according to data released Friday that could complicate the Federal Reserve’s interest rate path.
Gross domestic produce rose at an annualized rate of just 1.4%, according to Commerce Department numbers adjusted for seasonality and inflation. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for a 2.5% gain.
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So much for that. I’ll certainly try to produce more gross stuff. 😊👍
Stupid Democrat shutdown.
Something feels off about this.
I’ll speculate until something better comes along. GDP includes government spending. That is based upon the assumption that we get something from government spending.
Reducing government spending by reducing USAID, reducing fraud payments for Somali day care spending, etc. is a good thing in my book. Yet it is a reduction in GDP. Let’s assume that the USAID workers and Somalis “learn to code” or do something else productive. That will be a plus. However, that may take some time.
Maybe it is that the Commerce Department is still full of Democrat operatives that will crunch the numbers in the best way to make things look as bad as possible due to their TDS.
The Federal Government is full of swamp dwellers and probably always will be.
Propaganda.
Maybe it should be called GDS - Gross Domestic Spending. Unless somebody wants to only count the productive part of government in the current calculation.
W E A T H E R!
No one ventured out to buy anything.
Shutting down the government for a month will do it to ya every time.
The government pumps tons of money into production. Look at how much an F35 costs.
For sure...have been hearing again and again...that folks are spending.
They need to have a new way to calculate GDP.
They need to multiple deficit spending by 2 and subtract it from the total GDP for that quarter.
They need to do the same with unemployment, where employment in Federal Government jobs is not shown as employed, or unemployed. Loss of Federal Government job isn’t unemployment, and gain of a Federal Government job isn’t employment.
We do those two things and then re-evaluate the economy since 2000, we will see clear trends to help guide us forward.
Haven't been out in a month cuz I'm freez'n my butt off in Upstate NY.
We’ll, We The People spend, not government, on things We need, Where’s Our tariff money?
Ja, dann wird wieder in die Hände gespuckt
Wir steigern das Bruttosozialprodukt
Yes, then we’ll roll up our sleeves again. (though direct translation is ‘spit in the hand’) We’re boosting the gross national product.
Bruttosozialprodukt by Geier Sturzflug 1982
Economic growth cooled near the end of 2025 while inflation held firm (propaganda report).
Facts
As of January 2026, the U.S. annual inflation rate is 2.4%, down from 2.7% in the previous month and 3.0% a year ago.
Wow that’s as bad as Canada’s numbers.
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