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US Economy grows 3.5%, biggest growth in 2 years

Rey C.

Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
As a matter of perspective, in Q4 of 2008 we were falling by -6.3% in annualized real GDP. In Q1 of 2009, the advance GDP estimate stood at -6.1% (revised to -5.7%). Now we're up by +3.5%(the advance estimate anyway). So in roughly 10 months we've seen an improvement of nearly 10% in annualized real growth. And this is a bad thing??? I'm afraid that I'm :confused:

Unemployment (and other metrics) is still quite high and not yet improving. And there are still some serious issues in the banking and real estate sectors: foreclosures, high commercial vacanacy rates, etc. But since the OP was about GDP/overall macro economic activity, I figured I'd stick with that.
 
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