Why Financial Reporters Are Clueless: They Copy And Paste Keynesian/Wall Street Propaganda
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
06/26/2014
This morning’s Q1 GDP revision might have been a wake-up call. After all, clocking in a -2.9% – cold winter or no – it was the worst number posted since the dark days of Q1 2009. Well, actually, it was the fourth worst quarterly GDP shrinkage since Ronald Reagan declared it was morning again in American 30 years ago. Stated differently, 116 of the 120 quarterly GDP prints since that time have been better. Even when you adjust for the Q1 inventory “payback” for the bloated GDP figures late last year, real GDP still contracted at a -1.2% annually rate. Still, within minutes of the 8:30AM release, the Wall Street Journal’s news update did not fail to trot out the “do not be troubled” mantra. When the daily narrative is this lame it is no wonder that our happy talk financial system drifts toward the wall. The Cool-Aid drinkers have simply lost touch with reality.
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