Does anyone care about the economy?

[BurtReynolds]

$GME still trades for 23x what it traded for two years ago

[spike]

Stimmies on the way in IL

[4/5]

Problem: too many dollars chasing too few goods

Solution: more dollars

[elliseamos]

Just read that certain stores over-ordered and will be having sales on certain items.

Update at 11!

[Bammer]

No grocery tax in WA to begin with

[doug rr]

No grocery tax in WA to begin with

your alcohol tax sucks though

[Bammer]

No grocery tax in WA to begin with

your alcohol tax sucks though

[doug rr]

No grocery tax in WA to begin with

your alcohol tax sucks though

oh look...jameson is on sale for $23.99..final bill...$32

[McParadigm]

Just do drugs instead. You’re in Washington.

[Bammer]

Just do drugs instead. You’re in Washington.

$free.99 baby!

[BurtReynolds]

We are governed by absolute clowns.

[spike]

We are governed by absolute clowns.

lol

[spike]

[elliseamos]

"Brief" meaning 100+ years of businessmen complaining about employees. *chef kiss*

[blueviper]

Didn't know how this was going to go, but I got a good chuckle out of it.

[Bi_3]

[spike]

Natalie also has a “Tom Cruise was right” tweet in her recent feed.

[4/5]

I mean that's not new, nor is it a redefinition. Two quarters of negative GDP growth *isn't* a recession even though that seems to be the shorthand people use.

Q1 GDP only fell 1.5% and consumption and investment both increased. The decline in GDP was because of an increase in imports and a decrease in government spending. Unemployment is 3.6% and there's a massive labor shortage. I'm not sure what this economy is, but it's not an open and shut case that it's currently a recession. I think we'll get a Fed-driven disinflation recession soon enough, but I don't think it's crazy to suggest that this isn't a recession.

[Bi_3]

I mean that's not new, nor is it a redefinition. Two quarters of negative GDP growth *isn't* a recession even though that seems to be the shorthand people use.

Q1 GDP only fell 1.5% and consumption and investment both increased. The decline in GDP was because of an increase in imports and a decrease in government spending. Unemployment is 3.6% and there's a massive labor shortage. I'm not sure what this economy is, but it's not an open and shut case that it's currently a recession. I think we'll get a Fed-driven disinflation recession soon enough, but I don't think it's crazy to suggest that this isn't a recession.

Obviously you are right on both accounts. It's not the technical definition, but it is the common parlance, how the majority of people would define it, and the very act of making that distinction is gonna give the "depends on what the definition of 'is' is" vibe.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE