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USA is back! GDP roars to 6.4% in Q1

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I expect a short term boom, We just dumped 2.6 trillion dollars between the end of 2020 and then 2021, Add to that opening up things had to take off, and inflation is running wild with it. I expect a 6 mos to maybe a bit over a year boom and then the bubble is going to explode.
 
on a side note, Growth in 3rd quarter last year with first partial open up was 33.4% and still was 4% growth in 4th quarter with Blue states staying in lock down as much as the could. So Huge stimulus payment and opening up only increased it by 2.4%.
 
I expect a short term boom, We just dumped 2.6 trillion dollars between the end of 2020 and then 2021, Add to that opening up things had to take off, and inflation is running wild with it. I expect a 6 mos to maybe a bit over a year boom and then the bubble is going to explode.
Inflation drives GDP growth now. Just wait until MV starts to tick up and we could turn into Argentina in the course of a couple of months. Should be a fun ride.
 
Biden is making inflation worse with the off the charts spending, Though we were going to have it even without him. The Bank of America is predicting hyperinflation.
 
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Remember when the federal reserve was mandated to keep inflation under control, and then they were also supposed to maintain full employment? Those were good times. Now all they do is prop up banks and the stock market.
 
Remember when the federal reserve was mandated to keep inflation under control, and then they were also supposed to maintain full employment? Those were good times. Now all they do is prop up banks and the stock market.
The last 10 years of handouts to billionaires has been insanity, and we have nothing to show for it except a richer and richer top 0.5%

It will trickle down any day now. Right?
 
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The last 10 years of handouts to billionaires has been insanity, and we have nothing to show for it except a richer and richer top 0.5%

It will trickle down any day now. Right?
Remember the nonsense about how Trump's 2 trillion dollar tax cut would "pay for itself"? Yet raising it back to the level it was at before Trump to pay for our crumbling infrastructure is "too costly."
 
Remember the nonsense about how Trump's 2 trillion dollar tax cut would "pay for itself"? Yet raising it back to the level it was at before Trump to pay for our crumbling infrastructure is "too costly."
If it was actually infrastructure spending that went into things that increased productivity, I'd be 100% on board. But it won't so I'm not. We should have learned this lesson last time when we spent 787 billion dollars for infrastructure and 90% of it went into the pockets of people that didn't need it.

At this point, the entire goal of our monetary and fiscal policy is to make rich people even richer, and to keep interest rates low so that the government can inflate themselves out of debt.
 
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