Is the Economy Really In Reverse? Think Again (Video)

There is both good and bad in the economic data. There are reasons to smile and reasons to frown. We owe it to ourselves to look at all of those reasons. We must look at all of those reasons if we want to understand this nation’s economic circumstances

Contents

• Introduction

• Not Everything Shrank

• Corporate Media Gaslighting

• What Did Grow

• What Didn’t Grow

• Getting Defensive

Links And Sources

• Advance Estimate of First Quarter GDP for 2025 (BEA): https://www.bea.gov/news/2025/gross-domestic-product-1st-quarter-2025-advance-estimate

• “US economy goes into reverse from Trump’s abrupt policy shifts“: https://archive.ph/0vh3o

• “U.S. economy shrank 0.3% in the first quarter as Trump policy uncertainty weighed on businesses”: https://archive.ph/0qDga

• “U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter”: https://archive.ph/IJu5k

• 1Q Real Investment: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1IF16

• 1Q Real Nonresidential Fixed Investment: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1IF1Q

• 1Q Real Change In Private Inventories: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1IF2y

• 1Q Real Exports of Goods and Services: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1IEDY

• 1Q Real Consumption of Goods and Services: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1IF3g

• 1Q Real Final Sales of Domestic Products YoY: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1IEDl

• 1Q Real Final Sales of Domestic Products QoQ: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1IEqI

• 1Q Real Government Spending: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1IEoj#