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2014-04-30 Economy

US Economic Growth Basically Stopped in 2014′s First Quarter

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Posted by DarthVader 2014-04-30 11:51|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Gonna go in reverse for Q2?

Posted by DarthVader 2014-04-30 11:52|| 2014-04-30 11:52|| Front Page Top

#2 when sales decrease because of weather in one quarter, they usually increase the next quarter

thus, most private forecasters are calling for the 2nd Q to have an annualized rate of +3% to +3.5%

Posted by lord garth 2014-04-30 11:59|| 2014-04-30 11:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Easy to diagnose: Its the first quarter Obamacare went into full effect, more or less.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-04-30 15:48|| 2014-04-30 15:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Oil (Gasoline) went up, and is staying up.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-04-30 17:42|| 2014-04-30 17:42|| Front Page Top

#5 See also WAFF > [NYT] US SANCTIONS RUSSIA BUT FINDS ITSELF IN RECESSION.

So once again, the USA may have an economic reason not to militarily respond iff-n-when Putin does finally send his RussArmy Boyz into the Eastern Ukraine.

Ditto RISING CHINA + RISING IRAN???

OWG GLOBALISM = HOW FAR CAN THE US + GREAT POWERS SAFELY RETREAT OR FALL BACK GEOPOL IN FAVOR OF WANNABES WIDOUT BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED.

As best illustrated in current real-time by pro-Russian separatists on Donetsk + Luhansk+ Slavyansk continuing to take over the eastern Ukraine from Kiev despite the on-going begotiations between Vlad + the Bammer.

and

* TOPIX > KERRY: RUSSIA PUTS NATO MODEL OF GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AT STAKE.

OWG CO-SUPERPOWERISM = A FUTURE SPACE GOVT-ORDER LED BY MANY NUCLEAR-ARMED CHIEFS, AS OPPOSED TO ONE OR A FEW CHIEFS + MANY INDIANS???

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Independent.UK] US FOREIGN POLICY: PRESIDENT DEFENDS HIS OBAMA DOCTRINE WHERE MILITARY INTERVENTION IS A LAST RESORT.

Yokay, I'll bite, I thought the premise of the Bammer Doctrine was that a Country's Leader or Leadership could be diplomatically or forcibly removed iff it is found to had committed serious crimes agz its own people???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-04-30 21:04|| 2014-04-30 21:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Press rapidly and actively ~~grilling the president~~ ignoring this news.

If it were Bush or a GOP president, the crescendo of doom would be deafening.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-04-30 21:23|| 2014-04-30 21:23|| Front Page Top

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