The Latest Government Inflation And GDP Figures Are Worthless, And Will Be For Months To Come
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-25/the-latest-government-inflation-and-gdp-figures-are-worthless-and-will-be-for-months-to-come
Posted by T_Shurt
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They’ll be entirely worthless and bonus points (big if) a democratic president becomes elected to the pee pee throne you know they’ll always be completely inaccurate because of party politics and sycophants who worship Der Fuhrer.
IF a new president that’s not a psycho gets elected, all of these agencies will need to clean house to remove the cancerous tumors from the system.
From the article:
On December 18th the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that inflation had fallen to an annual rate of 2.7%, down from 3% in September and well below the 3.1% consensus from economists.
Unsurprisingly, the Trump administration seized on the figures to boast about Trump’s economic policies.
Um, not so fast.
The economists whose jobs involve scrutinizing those statistics to glean what they really mean don’t view them as unalloyed support for Trumponomics. Quite the contrary. Many see them as artifacts of the long government shutdown, which halted the collection of data that go into those reports, severely distorting the results. Furthermore, they expect the flaws in those reports to persist well into 2026, undermining their usefulness as true economic indicators.
“You’ve got to take it with a grain of salt,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG US, of the inflation report. “It’s confusing and doesn’t quite square with prices that we’ve observed.”
A close examination of the GDP figures also underscores the narrow basis driving economic growth in recent months – it’s essentially the product of robust spending by wealthy consumers and massive corporate investments in AI technology. For middle – and lower – income Americans, the economic present and future don’t look anywhere near as sunny as the numbers would suggest.
You can’t trust anything this administration puts out. Easily one of the most incompetent and corrupt administrations in the history of the country.