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29 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The United States economy grew at a record-shattering rate of 7.4 percent in the third quarter—but it still wasn’t enough to lift the country out of the pandemic-size crater it was sent into by the novel coronavirus
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Earlier this week @mtomasky cautioned that this "number will be the last piece of good pre-election news Trump will get"
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"Yes, the economy is expected to grow by about 30% (on an annualized basis; actual number for the quarter will be more like 7%). But remember: It shrunk by 32.9% in the 2nd quarter, which was the worst-ever quarter in the history of these calculations."
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"Trump & company will surely spend Thursday and Friday crowing that they’ve now made up all the lost ground. It will not be true," @mtomasky explains.
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“Remember this: Everyone who makes these predictions believes that GDP ‘growth’ for the year will be around minus 3.5%”

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