Those numbers even if true are elevated due to the higher cost of everything, which is because of Trumps incompetence.

nobody to stop them

If they said that winter in Barrow, AK is cold and dark, I'd buy a parka, sunglasses, a swimsuit, snowboots, sunscreen and a thermometer before my visit.

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

They were hoping to get some juice out of this fake number but no one is buying it.

This outfit won't give out any corrections unless they can find a way to massage the numbers to make Mango Mussolini look better.

They will not want to show declining or flat growth in an election year. So they will have to either revise this quarter down or fudge the numbers even more next year.

Drawn with a Sharpie

Apparently a good chunk of the GDP boost was from purchase of computer equipment for data centers.... so the AI bubble is boosting the GDP.

And I am perceptive, and hyper-sensitive to being propagandized.

Given how tariffs have been started, then stopped for 90 days (ie, stopped for a quarter), then restarted in some cases, I expect lower GDP growth for the 4th quarter. But doing it this way, the regime avoids 2 weak quarters in a row, which might be regarded as recessionary.

be so low.

and consumer confidence at its worst for the year. And silver (a harbinger of bad economic times) is at record highs.

This is the first post BLS stats and they appear to have been mightily manipulated to get the results the orange oligarch preferred.