TL,DR: The Atlanta Federal Reserve is currently forecasting GDP declining at a 2.8% annualized rate this quarter. The economy grew at a 2.3% in the October-December quarter.
Thats a 5.1% negative change, which is impressive in how terrible it is.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-trade-deficit-hits-record-high-in-january-on-imports-surge/ar-AA1AnYq0 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit widened to a record high in January amid front-loading of imports ahead of tariffs, suggesting that trade could be a drag on economic growth in the first quarter.
The trade gap surged 34.0% to an all-time high of $131.4 billion from a revised $98.1 billion in December, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) said on Thursday. The percentage change was the largest since March 2015.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the trade deficit soaring to $127.4 billion from the previously reported $98.4 billion in December. President Donald Trump this week slapped a new 25% tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada and doubled duties on Chinese goods to 20%, triggering a trade war.
Imports soared 10.0%, the most since July 2020, to $401.2 billion. Goods imports increased a record 12.3% to an all-time high of $329.5 billion. They were driven by a $23.1 billion increase in imports of industrial supplies and materials, mostly reflecting finished metal shapes, which are probably gold.
Consumer goods imports rose $6.0 billion, boosted by pharmaceutical preparations, cell phones and other household goods. Imports of capital goods increased $4.6 billion amid rises in computers, computer accessories and telecommunications equipment.
Imports of services rose $0.4 billion to $71.7 billion, lifted by rises in charges for the use of intellectual property and other business services. But travel service imports decreased.
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Exports rose 1.2% to $269.8 billion. Goods exports increased 1.6% to $172.8 billion, boosted by a $4.2 billion rise in capital goods that reflected civilian aircraft, semiconductors, computers and civilian aircraft engines. Consumer goods exports increased $1.7 billion, driven by pharmaceutical preparations and jewelry. But exports of other goods dropped $1.3 billion. Food exports decreased $1.0 billion, pulled down by a $0.8 billion drop in soybeans. Exports of services increased $0.6 billion to $97.0 billion amid gains in financial, telecommunications, computer and information as well as other business and transport services. But exports of government goods and services decreased $0.3 billion. The deterioration in the trade deficit and drop in consumer spending in January have raised the risk of a contraction in gross domestic product in the first quarter. But some economists still expect moderate growth this quarter, arguing that gold, mostly from Europe, accounted for much of the surge in imports. The increase in gold imports was seen related to fears of tariffs on the precious metal. "Most gold imports into the U.S. are unrelated to U.S. production or consumption and instead fluctuate based on demand from gold market participants, so the BEA excludes them altogether from the national accounts," Goldman Sachs said in a note. The Atlanta Federal Reserve is currently forecasting GDP declining at a 2.8% annualized rate this quarter. The economy grew at a 2.3% in the October-December quarter.
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>leftists suddenly caring about the economy after driving it into the ground for 4 years under Biden Lel
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Don't care Hes beating the cartels, he's bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US, he's getting rid of illegals, I literally do not care about a short term period of economic uncertainty due to his tactics. Investor class can get fucked
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>>1389621 Trump's bringing us roaring into the recession Biden barely avoided you retard. After spending an entire campaign promising he'd fix the mess.
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>>1389642 >Biden >avoided recession Where have you been for the last 4 years anon?
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>>1389644 Oh we got close. We certainly got close. But we just squeezed by going into one. Now things are going to get worse because Trump's a retard.
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>>1389646 >But we just squeezed by going into one No the fuck we did not
Again, where were you the last 4 years?
>Now things are going to get worse because I was a useless eater being subsidized by USAID and now I have to get a real job FTFY
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>>1389647 Anon by definition we weren't in a recession. You think making it so we're losing one of our primary trade partners is gonna somehow improve things?
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socialist Phoenix riseth from the ashes Thu 06 Mar 2025 17:22:06 No. 1389650 Report >>1389646 Recessions are a feature of capitalism not a bug. In late stage capitalism recessions will occur more and more often. Eventually the system will crumble and this will open the door for a socialist Utopia. 50 million die in the United States and probably about 2 billion globally, but eggs must be cracked to make omelettes. But every socialist utopian egg will be treated with respect and will have a chicken in every pot
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>>1389650 Socialism doesn’t exist without shit economies they are the most prone to complete and utter collapse
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>>1389646 The economy immediately went into recession day one when Biden came in and has never recovered. The reason we elected Trump was to fix this mess and permanently solve the global leftist problem.
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>>1389650 Calling it capitalism when the federal reserve exists is just ridiculous. There's nothing capitalistic about the government going into 36 trillion debt for wars, tranny shit, and hundreds of millions of illegal immigrants. This is the definition of a socialism
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>>1389669 And how's that going? You got budget cuts but we're losing jobs and prices keep going up. Please point to the economic victory in the room.
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>>1389756 he's just going to bring up transexuals for no reason like he does every day
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>>1389759 >Why do you keep bringing up the things that the Biden administration literally spent billions of dollars on Anonymous
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>>1389763 i hope we cut the internet cables from your country
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>>1389763 Oh billions now?
By the way, curious how we're doing worse now with all these spending cuts.
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>>1389765 500 billion dollars on condoms to Gaza used to build bombs to destroy Israel.
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trump could literally say anything and his supporters would parrot it. just throw away the whole america
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>>1389765 We're not doing worse though. Only you are doing worse
>>1389768 >Cried the man with TDS for the hundredth day in a rown Anonymous
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>>1389769 >We're not doing worse though. Please look at the price of goods and the stock market and say the economy is somehow better.
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>>1389619 Short term pain long term gain has always been the plan. Bribens failed economy was due to his garbage unsustainable policies, Trump's economic setback is part of a wider strategy of "shock therapy" meant to destroy the decrepit system and rebuild it back better.
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>>1389669 >permanently solve the global leftist problem. Leftists in Canada were set to go extinct before Trump came in sperging about annexing them and now the liberals might actually keep their majority. AfD also cratered in his wake
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>>1389848 >muh short term pain long term gain Please explain how we get to the gain part. It seems a lot like a missing steps plan
>Step 1: Increase price of imports, decrease profit from exports, cause multiple boycotts from our main trading partners, cause thousands of jobs to be lost >Step 2: ??? >Step 3: Profit Anonymous
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>>1389851 Hard to describe the Canadian Liberals as leftists. The NDP are, but the Liberals are a centre-right party. You're right though, the Conservatives (slightly further right than the Liberals) were all set to sweep the election and now having supported Trump they have lost all support. They couldn't backpedal fast enough. We might even see the collapse of their party soon.
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>>1389851 I think the funniest part Trump is so retarded he's put every international rightwing party that saw him as a rallying point and inspiration in a bind. He's now exactly the type of leader Right-wingers would rally against, but they already got caught sucking his dick and bowing down to him. So now they can't rally against him without looking like massive hypocrites and the left parties now have mass moderate appeal because they won't bring another Trump into power.
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>>1389854 Your headcanon is wild and delusional. Maybe go get prescribed some medicine. Trump is the epitome of a moderate politician.
>left parties now have mass moderate appeal The left is so far gone that you think Trump is a literal nazi for closing the border and slightly downsizing the government
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>>1389861 >Trump is the epitome of a moderate politician. My fucking sides holy shit.
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>>1389851 The worst thing to happen to international communism and fascism was when Lenin and Hitler/Mussolini took power, respectively. Sperges will sperge, and will make the movement toxic in other nations (at least for a while). Modern libs are retarded tho and don't fix the problems that lead to these movements being attractive, so they just rebuild and come back stronger.
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I voted for this and don't care as long as it makes libs seethe. I would rather my family be homeless and starving than to see one nigger tranny receive a scrap of bread.
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>>1389861 this stupid board seriously needs flags. Only an Aussie can shitpost that hard.
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>>1389621 >rightards suffering due to Trump Slump: they'll suffer more the longer that orange retard is allowed in office Why shouldn't we celebrate your opinions being destroyed? Your tears, our schadenfreude.
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>>1389773 >Please look at the price of goods and the stock market and say the economy is somehow better. Amazing how you were able to do this for 4 years under Biden when prices were higher and the economy was worse
>>1390104 >your tears our schaudenfreude Weird, you're the one crying here.
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>>1389619 Why is the ATL fed differing from what the STL fed is saying?
I don't get it.
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>>1390120 Answered my own question.
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
>Raphael Bostic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Bostic >On October 14, 2022, Bostic failed to disclose stock trading transactions in the five years leading the bank that were revealed after a federal investigation. >Throughout his career, Bostic has been mentioned as a potential nominee for a variety of roles in the federal government. In November 2020, Bostic was named as a potential candidate for Secretary of the Treasury in the then-upcoming Biden administration Implosion!!!
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>>1389624 have fun being a serf in the future neo-feudal corporate oligarchy, it's sure making america great again
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>>1390126 But I already am.
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>>1390116 Weird form of 'No U'
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This is why Trump needs to hurry up and declare himself king, and Americans need to get over their dictator phobia. Americans, as a group, or dumb herd animals. They will turn against Trump if the prices of their funko pops and McDonalds goes up just a bit. They have no spine. They can't withstand any temporary hardship, sacrifice any momentary comfort for long term gains. This is about reclaiming the American dream. And no, contrary to what leftists say, the American dream isn't having cheap goods or free gibes, it's about meritocracy and law of the jungle. The weak are devoured to sustain the strong, the strong rule with wisdom and ruthlessness. This is what has bought the American century, not cheap Chinese shit.
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>>1390144 There's a sinister reason why we've all been spoon-fed democracy worship since childhood.
The fact is that democracy is premised on the idea opposite that of individualism, that is democracy is about collectivism. And collectivism is the soul of socialism. Democracy says that the group is more important than the individual, the individual must accept the dictates of the group, and you're not even allowed to leave--they get to legally force their will on you and you must accept it.
The reason the left loves democracy so much is because it is their back-door into socialism. If they can get you to accept that democracy is the best thing ever, then all they have to do is convince 51% of people that all property should be controlled democratically and boom, they have converted the USA into a socialist paradise.
Many socialists even openly describe socialism as economic democracy. In other words, what you own is not yours, it is the groups, therefore we can vote to take it away from you. And no more privately owned businesses, no we must now run all businesses democratically as co-ops. This is literally what they want and they gleefully repeat how much they love democracy, because to them it means socialism.
So the unfortunate fact is that by creation a political system with democracy baked into it, the founding fathers opened the door to socialism and it is up to us to close it. And the first thing we have to do is let everyone else in the conservative movement know the true nature of democracy, that is poison to society, and get everyone on the same page that democracy is and always has been an enemy of good governance.
Generally the public accepts the idea that democracy is the 'worst political system except for all the others'. Which is pretty great because it implies that a new political system they've never heard about could in fact be better, and that is what we want to build. Meritocratic monarchy or corporatism are the governments of the future.
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>>1389619 It hasn't even begun to crater. Just wait.
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>>1390154 This. Get your money out of the banks while it's early bros