U.S. economic growth slowed in the final three months of last year, dragged down by the six-week shutdown of the federal government and a pullback in consumer spending. Consumer spending only rose 2.4% in the fourth quarter, a decrease compared to the third quarter’s 3.5% gain. Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, said the report reflected a “one-legged” economy boosted mostly by artificial intelligence. A separate report Friday showed that inflation, according to the Fed’s preferred measure, accelerated in December, as the cost of goods such as furniture, clothes, and groceries increased dramatically. Many households, however, have had to take on more debt to fuel their spending. The saving rate dropped in the fourth quarter to the second-lowest figure since August 2008, when the economy was mired in the Great Recession.https://apnews.com/article/gdp-economy-consumer-shutdown-immigration-0e5caca783b93eaf2231496e3e0f54f3
>>1491406>Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, said the report reflected a “one-legged” economy boosted mostly by artificial intelligenceYeah I'm pretty sure most of us know this entire economy is reliant solely on the slowly popping AI bubble to not crash outright.
>>1491406Digital IDWonderful.
>>1491406>The economy has been getting wealth extracted by the richest 2% for the last 80 years>Its Trump's fault!The reality is that its the fault of every elected official and their entire cabinet since at least the Reagan era, if not before that. Using Trump as a scapegoat doesn't help anybody, if you're serious about ever fixing this you'd have to go after the entire government and several foreign governments as well at the very least.
>>1491415>Using Trump as a scapegoat doesn't help anybodyTrump was the candidate that promised to drain the swamp and fix the pandering to wealthy. Instead he panders to Israel, his jew son-in-law and to the Chabadists who are screwing the economy over for their own benefit. So yeah, he deserves some criticism.
>>1491425We pandered more to Ukraine while Biden was in office
>>1491425Trump ran as a populist that promised to bring down energy and food prices day 1
>>1491426It isn't Biden's fault Putin thought land grabbing a neighboring country was a good idea.
>>1491426>weLOL. why do you make yourself so obvious, shill? Americans don't cry about how russia deserves better
>>1491428Yeah he sure did and he sure didn't deliver on his promises
>>1491440Is this the part where you say it is okay Joe Biden raised prices 25% and didn't release the Epstein files because he didn't say he would like Trump?
>>1491441How did Joe Biden supposedly do that? Magic powers?
>>1491415When you're in a hole, you stop digging. No reason to make excuses for the current guy once it's determined he's another digger.
>>1491442https://i.4cdn.org/news/1770158327267899.jpgI dunno, maybe it was the spending while he was president?https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2025/11/06/stacey-abrams-founded-organization-dissolves-following-ways-and-means-committee-scrutiny/Do you remember that time his administration paid 2 billion dollars to an organization associated with Stacey Abrams which completely collapsed under scrutiny?
>>1491450Didn't you notice it seemed like the digging wasn't a problem when the last guy but it became a problem for the current guy.Merrick Garland, Joe Biden's Attorney General never had to testify about the Epstein fileshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_8jHpldg94He could spend 4.5 hours answering questions, and not one would be about his lack of progress with prosecuting the pedophiles of the files. But now with Donald Trump's Pam Bondi in charge after 4 years it is now a crisis the lack of prosecutions, it is now an urgent matter that needs to be discussed
>>1491451>>1491453So this is your latest reasoning that Trump can protect pedophiles and kill the Epstein investigation? Some shit about Biden?
>>1491455he's esl shill, he's quite possibly a literal retard if he can't do anything but this fake job
>>1491455Didn't you notice it seemed like the digging wasn't a problem when the last guy was in charge but it became a problem for the current guy when he got in charge?Merrick Garland, Joe Biden's Attorney General never had to testify about the Epstein files. When he was in charge, it wasn't a problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_8jHpldg94He could spend 4.5 hours answering questions, and not one would be about his lack of progress with prosecuting the pedophiles of the files. But now with Donald Trump's Pam Bondi in charge after 4 years it is now a crisis the lack of prosecutions, it is now an urgent matter that needs to be discussed
does it count that I noticed you're an ESL shill?
Do you have neurological problems? You said that already. Scroll up. It’s right here >>1491453. You fucking retard, I don’t understand why you repeated yourself.
>>1491460So you didn't notice that. I don't get why you didn't just answer my question and say "No, I didn't notice how Merrick Garland didn't have to answer questions about Epstein, I didn't care about Epstein back then, so I don't care that Joe Biden and his Attorney general protected pedophiles"
>>1491461god you're esl
>>1491406Damn stork market didn't do good today. Did a retard do something to trigger a panic?
Seething jeet thread
I can't wait until all the conservatives memory hole the Trump years like they did to Bush.
>>1491487Just like a certain group of people memory hole that joe biden was president and had a chance to jail pedos but he protected them instead
>>1491432To be fair it probably isn’t trumps fault either. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the other way around and he got inspired to invade Greenland by putin
>>1491469Tariffs?
>>1491543I just love it when they try to imply that leftists love Biden or Clinton the same way they love Trump.
>>1491546You lied for years about Biden's health. You people said he was the greatest president ever as prices soared. You people are truly delusional. Only insane people can't see all the good Trump has done for America and that globohomo leftism must be annihilated, first in America and then the rest of the world, whether by PEACE or through CONQUEST.
>>1491455Nobody gives a shit about the moral fibre of politicians. We elected Trump to get rid of the Mexicans. As long as he continues to do that it doesn't really matter what he's gotten up to in his personal life.>But EpsteinEvery fucking politician does crooked shit and the vast majority were invovled with Epstein, it doesn't change anything. The primary problems we have right now are browns and communists, anyone who is willing to remove them is an objective good.
>>1491425Not only that, he's super charged boosting the wealthy with more trickle down economics.
>>1491549Trickle down works.
>>1491554https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctr9ZfeyvXg
>>1491554No it doesn't
>>1491549>>1491554I don't think anyone is advocating for trickle down economicsLike nobody is advocating for project 2025These are straw man positions. Like saying your position on abortion is Anti-life or Anti-choice
>>1491428>>1491425Guys I'm running low on Fell-for-it-again awards
>>1491622>I don't think anyone is advocating for trickle down economicshttps://groundworkcollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Fact-Sheet-Breaking-Down-the-GOPs-Reverse-Robin-Hood-Tax-Agenda.pdf>Like nobody is advocating for project 2025https://apnews.com/article/trump-project-2025-russ-vought-shutdown-2d1ea5e6e32c583ddf6b8a8164e523c3then why did republicans vote for someone who does both of those things?>>1491547>all the good Trump has done for AmericaLike..?
>>1491628>>all the good Trump has done for America>Like..?You're probably one of those faggots who think billionaires shouldn't fuck kidsThats antifa level retardation. Who cares what you think?
>>1491628>Like..?Being the first president in the last thirty years that wasn't actively anti-nativist. Imagine becoming president and then shitting on the majority ethnic demographic in America. You don't need to be a /pol/fag to see why that's fucking retarded.
>>1491630>Being the first president in the last thirty years that wasn't actively anti-nativist.He literally approved of two citizens being executed in the streets.
>>1491628>https://groundworkcollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Fact-Sheet-Breaking-Down-the-GOPs-Reverse-Robin-Hood-Tax-Agenda.pdfWhere does Donald Trump say "Vote for me and I'll implement trickle down economics"?I read through it, and it doesn't actually show any republicans advocating for trickle down economics>In a post on his Truth Social site Thursday morning, Trump announced he would be meeting with his budget chief, “Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent.”This doesn't prove that Trump is advocating for Project 2025, it proves he had a meeting. Now what was the consequences of this meeting? Is there a government agency that project 2025 wanted to shut down, and Trump started trying to shut down after that october meeting last year?
>>1491631Being a citizen doesn't give you immunity from the consequences of acting like a violent retard in front of federal law enforcement.
>>1491632>Where does Donald Trump say "Vote for me and I'll implement trickle down economics"?When he implemented the reverse-robinhood taxes of 2017>This doesn't prove that Trump is advocating for Project 2025,He literally hired Russ Vought, who is one of two people who made Project 2025, to be in his cabinet. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-is-russ-vought-omb-shutdown-layoffs-trump-project-2025/Any other stupid questions?
>>1491634So Trump instead said "Vote for me and I'll take from the poor and give to the rich?"I'd like to see it. You still haven't actually showed a republican politician endorsing trickle down economics, or campaigning on it.Like you haven't shown Trump endorsing project 2025. You said he hired someone who worked on it.Pete Buttigieg wrote a book called Trust: America’s Best Chance. I didn't hear how Joe Biden was going to implement the Pete Buttigieg agenda even though he literally hired the guy who wrote the book on it to his cabinet
>>1491635>I'd like to see it.tRump likes uneducated people.This is why he hates me.Ask to the declining economy, the population is growing at a slower rate because we have deported all these criminals, and white people are reproducing at a much reduced rate, so it is natural that the economy is growing slower
>>1491640I thought educated people generally cited their sources before making grand claimsYou still haven't cited Trump saying "vote for me and I'll implement Trickle Down economics". Or JD Vance. Or George Bush/Dick Cheney saying that.You haven't gotten me a republican advocating reverse robinhood policy saying "Vote for me and I'll take from the poor and give to the rich"My initial claim was "These are straw man positions. Like saying your position on abortion is Anti-life or Anti-choice" and you still haven't shown any evidence which refutes this claim. Of Republican politcians and officials saying people should vote for them so they can implement trickle down economics.
>>1491643get a real job shill, we're sick of watching you slob billionaire knobs
>>1491640God damn, you're ESL as fuck.
