Posted on 10/29/2009 8:38:26 AM PDT by dangus
Obama now fully owns the economy. No matter how bad his economic policies hurt the U.S. economy in the Spring, it was very difficult to quantify how much of the recession was his fault, and how much could be blamed on the Bush-Kennedy-Pelosi administration; the faster the economy sank, the lower the bar would be for him to claim credit for its recovery. Now that the recession is "over," however, he must take full blame for another recession.
The depression is not over, however. This Spring, I warned Freepers not to be fooled by a 3rd-quarter "recovery." The economy hasn't truly grown; it's been lifted. The GDP reports include government spending, even deficit spending. The mere action of transfering funds from the government to recipients counts as economic "production." Out of roughly three and one half trillion dollars of such "production" in the past quarter of it, more than three hundred billion dollars (more than five percent!) of it was due to an increase in federal, deficit spending... Yet the economy only grew three and a half percent. In other words, economic production has continued to fall.
Subtracting just the increased production of motor vehicles from the GDP lowers the figure from 3.5% to 1.9%. Gross domestic purchases excluding food and energy rose only 0.5%. What happens when you exclude motor vehicles along with food and energy gross domestic purchases isn't part of the Bureau of Economic Analysis' report, but it's hard to see how it could be positive.
Is it reasonable to subtract car sales from economic growth? Given that the boost in car sales is due to the government's destruction of existing cars, yes!
Leading indicators in the USA Today Economic Outlook Index already indicate a massive slowdown of growth in the first quarter of 2010:
It gets still worse. Keep in mind that the 1st Qtr 2010 is still receiving nearly the full support of the economic "stimulus." Late in 2010, the federal government will reduce the amount by which it is propping up the economy, or be forced to release another round of confidence-crushing, deficit-launching stimulus.
I KNEW there was a reason for me to drink so much so early.
NO one is fooled by the propaganda the Feds under the Fascist regime of Zero puts out.
Just ask all the unemployed if the “recession” is over.
Ask all the unemplyed if there are any helpful programs available to them ... the programs our taxes paid for so many years.
The majority of the unemployed WANT a job. Who wants to live on a taxpayer handout. Especially if you have a fam to support.
>I KNEW there was a reason for me to drink so much so early.
You too, huh?
The economy grew in the third quarter because the savings rate stopped rising and instead reversed, and because the fall in private inventories slowed. Unsustainable trends reverse is the only message, and economies naturally right themselves.
Unemployment remains high and it is going to remain high for some time, and GDP remains below its peak level and will remain so for some time. The english word used to describe the period of time in which those things remain true but GDP growth is positive, is "recovery".
I am so sick of people trying to substitute their doom mongering political spin for objective economic or financial analysis. It is bad enough when the infantile left does it, they lie for a living and want to live in fantasies; when the right, which is supposed to know economics and be willing to face reality squarely, does it, it is just pathetic.
And it DOES feel like the death panel starting to turbine up.
The youngsters in "positions" are practicin' gettin' it down right.
Yeah ... I got a lil’ Cap’n in me ....
Did you listen to that porno new conf. I thought it was intersting that ole Hoyer said: “this bill has been on available to the public since JUNE.
IS HE SAYING THEY NEVER CHANGED THE ORIGINAL...JUST ADDED 800+ MORE PAGES OF C***.
Americans better get real. This is NOT a joke.
It is being extended to April. They are also going to expand it to include some present home owner’s to buy new homes from what I understand.
-0 Economic growth to 3.+.
ZERO JUST CALLED THIS THE LARGEST ECONOMIC GROWTH IN 2 YEARS.
HE IS ON HIS LAST 2 YEARS SCAM.
SORRY ZERO...THIS MONKEY IS ON YOUR BACK NOW.
[I am so sick of people trying to substitute their doom mongering political spin for objective economic or financial analysis.]
Sane people do not listen to you Jason. You’ve been predicting a rebound for many months and all to no avail.
Two things need to happen. Taxes and spending need real cutting and that money given back to taxpayers and businesses AND we need a REAL leader at the top to give people confidence to start spending again. Until we get that we remain screwed.
Another round of confidence-crushing, deficit-launching stimulus.
Great synopsis!
I heard Christine Romer say this morning that GDP for the quarter would have been 0 or negative without government spending, as a result of the stimulus bill, and this would only last for maybe one more quarter. She expects the market to then step in and provide future growth.
It looks like we are near or at the top of a V recovery to me.
Let’s put it this way: Gallup will probably show a very small spike in Obama’s approval ratings over the next few days. That spike will be the high-water mark for Obama for the rest of his administration. When the economy goes down again in 2010, his approval ratings will shrink to the core of non-swing-voting leftists. And that’s if they don’t blame him for not getting the health care bill passed.
>> Oh utter horsefeathers, you can’t selectively remove pieces of the national product accounts and pretend you are measuring the economy. <<
I don’t pretend to be able to report a measurement of the private sector economy shrinking; any subsections of economic growth I cite are the government’s own reports. I only point out that government spending is driving the current growth, and that the growth in government spending is not sustainable. I make no claims such as “Without this growth, the economy would have shrunk 1.3%” nor do I write any predictions, such as that “the economy will shrink in 1Q 2010 by 1-2%” even though many economic experts have made such predictions.
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