John Williams formuliert dies etwas milder:
„Boomendes GDP -- Stärkster Anstieg in mehr als einer Dekade ist Unfug“
"Booming GDP – Strongest Growth in More than a Decade Is Nonsense
- Magnitude of GDP Revisions Suggests Unstable Data and Unusual Internal-Reporting Issues at Bureau of Economic Analysis
-Basic Durable Goods Orders Slowed Sharply in Third-Quarter 2014, On Track for Fourth-Quarter Contraction
- Home Sales Also Showed Patterns of Stagnation and Renewed Downturn
"No. 684: GDP Revision, November Durable Goods, New- and Existing-Home Sales"
Bedauerlich daran ist nur, daß die massivst unkorrekten Zahlen der US Regierungen von praktisch allen Medien und auch hierzumeist unkritisch und als Stärke der real taumelnden Wirtschaftsmacht wiedergeben werden.
"...We have descended fully into the Orwell/Rand vision. We have a Government that is corrupted to the core by an enormous amount of money from Wall Street and big business. Laws have now been passed which enable the Government/Wall Street to fully extract every last nickel and dime of wealth still possessed by the middle class....
The GDP remains the most-worthless and the most-heavily modeled, massaged and politically-manipulated of government economic series. At its core, the GDP does not reflect properly or accurately the changes to the underlying fundamentals that drive the economy. It does not even come close to measuring what most people would consider to be actual economic activity, for that matter.
Contrary to the GDP reporting, real sales of companies in the S&P 500 (deflated by the CPI-U) never recovered pre-recession levels, have been stagnant in recent quarters, and turned down quarter-to-quarter in third-quarter 2014...“
http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/
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