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New GDP data falls far short, shows 2025 ended with weak economic growth
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Tony Bark pawb.social tonytins@pawb.social
Joined: 2023-06-04
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Earlier this week, Peter Navarro, a leading White House voice on trade and economic policy, appeared on Fox News and insisted that the U.S. economy is “perfect.” In fact, during the same on-air comments, Navarro described the economic conditions in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term as the best since 1998, dovetailing with the president’s near-constant insistence that the domestic economy has literally never been as healthy as it is now.

The rhetoric was, by any fair measure, bizarre. Indeed, it was just last week when we learned that job growth in the United States fell to a 16-year low (excluding the 2020 pandemic) after the Republican president returned to power. There’s also extensive public opinion polling that shows most Americans are thoroughly dissatisfied with the nation’s economic conditions.

Describing the status quo as “perfect” reflected a White House that’s so desperate to peddle happy talk that it appears wildly out of touch.

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HeyJoe lemmy.world HeyJoe@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-05
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They blatantly lied? Shocking.

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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
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I'm shocked.

Shocked.

Well, not that shocked.

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StinkyFingerItchyBum lemmy.ca Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-02-26
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They blatantly lied? Shocking.

What's shocking is that so many morons keep falling for it over and over again.

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HellsBelle sh.itjust.works HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-10-18
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What's shocking is that so many morons keep falling for it over and over again.

Probably because they're so shocked they can't think straight anymore.

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Mister Neon lemmy.world MisterNeon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-20
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Fucking Christ I just want a fucking job. I'm going to be homeless because my dumbass fellow country men demanded a senile rapist to lead the country along with his cabal of mutant freaks. I fucking hate it here.

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-07
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So much winning

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HubertManne piefed.social HubertManne@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-03-13
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Again this is the best they could lay it out. Remember he was firing anyone who came out with accurate numbers. Eventually we will know employment fell along with gdp.

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phutatorius lemmy.zip phutatorius@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-04
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The word on every Democrat's lips should be "stagnation." Well, that, treason and child rape.

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EmpathicVagrant lemmy.world EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
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The word on every Democrat's lips should be "stagnation." Well, that, treason and child rape.

Unfortunately all are listed in order of political efficacy.

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EmpathicVagrant lemmy.world EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
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Again this is the best they could lay it out. Remember he was firing anyone who came out with accurate numbers. Eventually we will know employment fell along with gdp.

I had to attend a reemployment seminar, and have been searching for work since September. The people know, they just don’t pay attention to what they know. Only what they’re told.

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HubertManne piefed.social HubertManne@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-03-13
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I had to attend a reemployment seminar, and have been searching for work since September. The people know, they just don’t pay attention to what they know. Only what they’re told.

ive been out since last september. right before the election. hiring frozed over for that winter. its thawed since buts been anemic.

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