Humor: GDP – Grossly Dubious Projections

Thursday Humor: GDP – Grossly Dubious Projections (ZeroHedge, May 29, 2014):

In the middle of the last great financial crisis, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) proclaimed that Q1 2008 was the US economy grow at a modest 0.6%. This was met with hockey-stick prognosticators looking to the heavens for the next few quarters and bleeting about transitory factors affecting the economy. However, as the following chart shows, five years later (and after numerous adjustments) the +0.6% growth for Q1 2008 had somehow morphed into a clench-worthy 2.7% collapse in the economy

Trade accordingly…

20140529_GDP

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