☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆toWorld News@lemmy.mlEnglish·9 months agoRussia grew faster than all the G7 economies last year and the IMF forecasts it will again in 2024(lemmygrad.ml)imagearrow-up112arrow-down117message-square11file-textfedilink
arrow-up1-5arrow-down1imageRussia grew faster than all the G7 economies last year and the IMF forecasts it will again in 2024(lemmygrad.ml)☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆toWorld News@lemmy.mlEnglish·9 months agomessage-square11file-textfedilink
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minus-squaredavelEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down0·9 months agolinkfedilinkTo make matters even worse, the GDP is usually a garbage neoclassical economics metric that doesn’t differentiate between the real economy and the FIRE economy.
minus-squaredesentizisedarrow-up3arrow-down0·9 months agolinkfedilinkYea I mean if we’re talking percentage then the (pre-2022) reference point is the size of Spain’s economy. And if it shrunk in 2022 then why shouldn’t it be able to grow by 3% while at war right?
To make matters even worse, the GDP is usually a garbage neoclassical economics metric that doesn’t differentiate between the real economy and the FIRE economy.
Yea I mean if we’re talking percentage then the (pre-2022) reference point is the size of Spain’s economy. And if it shrunk in 2022 then why shouldn’t it be able to grow by 3% while at war right?