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First, zero reason to trust any data coming from the "alternative facts" administration. Second, this strips housing, food and services from the calculation. Third, we aren't provided with a breakdown of where money is actually being spent. Health care, luxury items like cars, etc. that skew data.

All of the economic data this administration publishes is suspect. I hope other, unaffiliated data is being analyzed.

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With this administration there are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics. That’s why they fired anyone who had any credibility and honor.

Isn't that GDP up the same % as inflation? So it's not really an increase? More smoke and mirrors?

This is based on the premise that only the top 20% if people count as human. All the rest are treated like slaves, and culled when inconvenient. The masses are treated like cattle.

Typical Russian style propaganda! Pottyn told the 🍊💩how to deceive the American people.

"Some economists" amounts to what's called a straw man fallacy. Or in other words, another lie from a group that only lies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Yes, we know, the Trump admin paid them to. Meanwhile, the actual data is apocalyptic.

Nah ... it's Christmas season. People will buy for their families; they're doing it now because they may be laid off after the 1st of January, lose their homes because they can't pay the mortgages, their car note, their rent. Groceries. Brace for it ....

It is a bloated number because of Insurance and the AI boon, both of which are in a bubble about to burst just like the tech boon in 2000.

I don't believe it...What do the MAGA people call such a lie? Fake News!

What?

Lol, so Forbes believes these fake ass Trump numbers?

The regime controls the narrative. It's no longer independent. What more would you expect?

"“K” shaped economy" is just slavery with plausible deniability.

@forbes.com you guys realize this isn’t twitter right?!!

HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FORBES!! You believe the data from this administration huh?! Geezus Christ be fucking better

So I guess there are a lot of mansions, yachts and Mercedes being purchased while I have a modest income being on workers compensation and have to go to food pantries to help feed my family . Something is really wrong 😑

And then next year it doesn't happen but it will be anticipated the year after..... all bullshit

Fucking Exactly!

Come back with what you fools? No one has any money and jobs are disappearing! Get you damn heads out of your proverbial butt!

😂😂😂😂😂 Wait until you hear what the deranged pig in the Whitehouse does tomorrow.

There has always been a huge disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street, proven by the elevated markets and rising unemployment numbers. The top 10% is doing better while the rest is either losing or at risk of losing. The cost of living is still sky-high. Where are our cheap eggs, DJT?

“Some economists” are morons. The K shaped economy proves the majority of Americans are suffering , while a handful of rich people are drowning in wealth and spending like Kings. America is doomed to financial collapse, and “some economists” and Forbes are morons, blind and deaf to Reality.

how can you trust any information this #LYING regime *wants* to be true?

Fudged numbers coming from compromised Trump-aligned economists and being reported by a once credible magazine now run on AI. What could go wrong?

Why would anyone believe these figures, let alone the promised "hockey stick" of improvement? Why doesn't Forbes spend some time looking at the fraud and lies instead of repeating likely nonsense from a corrupt regime?

With FASCISTS IN THE WHITE HOUSE? NO. NOTHING IS COMING BACK. #StopFascism Get the Trump Regime out.

And if you believe that, i have this nice piece of swamp land for you

hmm maybe the HIGHER COST of products played a part

Doesn’t sound like a vengeance. And it’s also possible numbers or purchases are manipulated.

Uhm where’s the numbers come from?

Forbes is shoveling Drumph shite. Awaiting the downward revision sure to come.

Yet companies are laying off in ever increasing numbers. Manufacturing is slowing, consumer debt is increasing, savings is decreasing. The only good news is for wall street speculators not main street families.

Sure, sure. Everything is just fine peasants.🫠🤪

This comes from Trump’s personal Bureau of Labor Statistics now that he died the real one that he could not stand because it reported reality.

🙄🙄🙄

Anyone who believes any mainstream reporting these days is gullible beyond belief. The evidence that government agencies and media are capitulating to Trump’s threats if they publish anything that isn’t flattering to him is hilariously obvious.

Yeah...bullshit

I wish Blue had a down vote button when I see these BS Forbes posts.

Forbes: are you actually using the dictator‘s fake numbers???

Forbes capitulated long ago to the pedo. Not a credible media org.

I really want the next president to prioritize tracking all the corruption down. All of it.

Except that’s absolutely false. You’re cherry picking worse than I think I’ve ever seen. Why don’t you report the context?

Why don’t I believe this

😂😆😅🤪😄😃😝🤑🤭🤣😄😃🤪🤨🤣😅 Oh.You were serious. 😁😆😂🤣😅😆😃😄😁🤪😜🙃😄😆😅🤣

Everyone rushing to take care of healthcare needs before they lose insurance next year.

Hey Forbes? Who is selectively releasing these #’s that you cheer with zero verification? Idiots.

“Some economists” 🤡

AI bubble playing move the money

Facts!

All of it

That’s BS of course but tell your dictator propaganda news

No one believes anything the lying republicans say or the current American govt. the world is disgusted with America no one is travelling and your being boycotted

😂😂😂. ‘Some’. Who’s ‘some’ ? The regimes economists?

They weren’t very good economist then. Ask the average citizen and they coukd have told you that was ridiculous!

Weighted blankets rock

So, Forbes is now covering for Trump? No surprises here.

Apparently the Forbes building doesn't have any windows.

GRP rises to 4.3% reported from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis - an agency of the U.S. Dept of Commerce run by Howard Lutnick of Trump's grifters admin? Yea right! Will it hold up to public scrutiny after the raw data is released in 2026? www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN3O...

First, tell us how reliable those numbers might be. Then tell us who was buying? Then let’s talk.

The numbers reported by the Feds are all lies. Apologies to those workers remaining in report producing roles, but we understand the impossibility of maintaining your integrity while pressured to lie to your fellow citizens in order to improve the appearance of their lies.

I call bullshit

Oh, we'll be back with a vengeance. Just not the kind you think.

The data is not to be trusted. The indicators are so tainted at this point. Look who is teaching them the math. A reduction of 500%, 600 %, 1000%, I have yet to have a pharmacy pay me to pick up my prescriptions!

Three out of 20 price indicators picked for 4.3% If that is true..... Then USA is in deep trouble. Get bend Forbes - the F' happened to you.

I call BS.

Yes, it’s going to be a blue tsunami next year 2026 💙💙💙😊

This is from the Trump Criminal Administration. Smarten up 🇺🇸

Some "economists" would be one of 4 dreadfully mistaken- 1-They are eating the laden fille posion Trump & his confederates are spweing 2-They have twisted & far too wishfull thinking 3-Threaten by bloody blaggorts to sress such utter bullshit 4-Or are not "economists" in any say shapse or form

Magic Eight Ball says No Fucken Way.

Ask that guy with the red hat, he looks like an expert!

just draining the accounts of the middle class to pay this exorbitant tax without a rise in wages to compensate for the inflation of prices, eventually the golden goose will die

Nope

Yeah ok. And if you look at the numbers, the rise in healthcare and pharmacy costs drove this. It's not by choice, it's survival. There is a cap to how much people can shell out. But cool, say the economy is coming back ...

The only thing I’ll be doing with a vengeance going into 2026…is boycotting fascist supporting businesses even harder than I did in 2025…

Yeah, this is just Nvidia's circlejerk AI bubble. The collapse will be fucking messy.

Exactly

If true it’s obviously not evenly felt by a large segment of the population…

Trump lackeys told you this.

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My boycott game is just getting warmed up.

They mean go into debt in an attempt to maintain their lifestyle that is increasingly unaffordable.

Hahahahahahahahhahahaha… funny.. very funny. 😐

Yeah, just wait! Besides, I don’t believe this administrations house of cards!

This is from a Dept. of Commerce which fired career employees and replaced them with Jan 6th Evangelical Republican Terrorists. Who wants to be the numbers are fake? Stephen Moore said Trump has the right to lie to us to help his economic program.

Nope. I don't believe it.

Trump and Trumpism are disassembling, but it’s no time to relax; we need to keep up the resistance. Now’s the time to keep up public pressure; now’s the time to demand the Epstein files! This edgy rock song says, “Now’s the Time!” youtu.be/WAwv86J25oc?...

I see they are avoiding the 3,200 Tyson employees losing their jobs and Jim Beam closing for a year . . . .

We found another pedo...

Why do I not believe this??

you just feed the shit.. dont your forbes..jfc.. your as pathetic as TACO.. do you also wear DIAPERS..? as you seem to just shovel shit.

The rich get richer

Are these numbers provided by the administration? If so then I do not trust them to be true.

LOL this is just fascist appeasement in print.

Lawyer fees make up 40% of GDP.

These numbers from a corrupt regime should not be taken as fact, they are liars and so are the people pushing fake stats and numbers. Ask real people, not this corrupt regime

Where did those numbers come from?

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Never in my 76 years of life do I recall the United States being so vulnerable as it is today!

Read high end items purchased in droves by the wealthy/ now more wealthier bc of yuge taxcuts to them helped the inflated numbers look great & middle class,working class flurry of purchases before the tariffs drove up costs buoyed the economy will see soon with all the jobs lost the past months

Okaaaay.

Thanks for the complete bullcrap analysis. This is number magikal thinking crap. Glad the 0.01% is doing so well it means fk all for the rest of us

I hope it’s true; retractions are embarrassing. GL 🍀

I call BULLSHIT on Steroids! Just look at previous reports on how #ConvictedFelonTrump has mulipulated numbers to benefit himself. He did say he would run the country like he ran his businesses.

Because companies held off because of the tariffs. I don't think that's going to be the case after people look at their credit card balances after Christmas.

Don’t tell me you’re stupid enough to actually believe these numbers.

Funny how noone I talk to sees any sign of this booming economy.

So what I'm hearing is that for every rich couple, there are 8 people losing access to the biological prerequisites of life. In no world is an 80% sacrifice good for the nation. Even cultures that practiced human sacrifice did not sacrifice 80% of the population.

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