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Keep On Printing? US GDP Still Growing At 3.5% Despite Malaise In Construction And Imports (So Much For Tariff Hysteria)

by confoundedinterest17 Well, tariffs didn’t turn out to be a lethal weapon as Democrats predicted. The US economy continues to grow! The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2025 is 3.5 percent on December 16, down from 3.6 percent on December 11. After this morning’s releases from the US Census …

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Central Planning: China’s Miracle–and Malaise

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The illusion created by the initial success of central planning is that it can continue indefinitely, when the reality is it’s unavoidably self-liquidating as the distortions unravel the entire economy. China offers a real-time case study of the upsides and downsides of central planning, broadly defined as the central …

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