About Today's GDP Report...
The federal government today reported negative .3% GDP growth for Q1 2025. The coverage of it so far is quite superficial and sensationalistic, because of course it is. That’s what our propaganda media does.
But if you look just a little deeper beyond the hyperventilating reports at Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, and CNBC, you find that the reasons why this slight contraction happened boil down to two factors: