Here Is The Reason For The Total Collapse In Q1 GDP!
- Here Is The Reason For The Total Collapse In Q1 GDP!
by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
Remember back in April, when the first GDP estimate was released (a gargantuan by comparison 0.1% hence revised to a depression equivalent -2.9%), we wrote: “If It Wasn’t For Obamacare, Q1 GDP Would Be Negative.” Well, now that GDP is not only negative, but the worst it has been in five years, we are once again proven right. But not only because GDP was indeed negative, but because the real reason for today’s epic collapse in GDP was, you guessed it, Obamacare.
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Here is the chart we posted in April, showing the contribution of Obamacare, aka Healthcare Services spending. It was, in a word, an all time high.
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Turns out this number was based on…. nothing.
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