The MSM seems to delight in talking about the GDP being the greatest

[doc03]

rise ever. But they don't explain if you are in a 100 foot hole and you climb out 35 feet you are still in a 65 foot hole.

[Boogiemack]

1. Wonder what they will be saying December 31?

[unblock]

2. Also the way percentages work. After a 50% drop, a 50% gain does not get you back where you started

[doc03]

4. Exactly There is one thing I fault Democrats and Obama for, they never took credit for

getting us out of the damn Bush recession. Now the economy is the only thing that Trump gets positive numbers on.
I mean the facts are there, the un-employment, debt, business failures the trade deficit but Democrats don't use them.

[Demsrule86]

3. I have not heard any of them say this...they say the growth was due to stimulus.

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. Quarterly number are ANNUALIZED (x4) - the gain is at what cost to our National health?

[Atticus]

6. Then too, what was the cost of that economic "good news" in terms of American deaths? "Opening up"

goosed our GDP, but it also poured gasoline on the Corona virus fire.