Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Atlanta Fed's GDPNow indicator, which estimates the current quarter's GDP growth based on a rolling set of economic indicators as they come in, could currently best be described as "rekt".
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57421efd... 10mo ago

GDP calculations should NOT include government spending at all for the main reason that all government spending is paid for by confiscation through taxation. So you can't, in good faith, add spending to the GDP that was first taken away from it in the first place.

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Liberty Farmer 10mo ago

Of course not, but they always have, so you can't compare other countries and us quarters/years without it.

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57421efd... 10mo ago

All Economists have to do is remove gov spending from all countries' GDP calculations. It's not rocket science.