Fun With Numbers

Trumplefucks love to spin the GDP numbers - like, 0.3% is nothing, we'll have that up again in no time at all.

Problem is, getting down to zero (no growth) you have to shrink the economy by about 2½%. Then you go down another 0.3%.

Of course, it's not quite that simple - because economics is never simple, and the reality of it is rarely within the realm of factual math - it's not called the Dismal Science for nuthin'.

But in one very real sense, Trump's tariff fuckup drove the economy down by about 2.8%