Fail. The private sector grew 4% annualized last quarter while the public sector contracted for real GDP growth of 2.5%. That is exactly opposite to the situation you describe in your quote.Moggio for more than 5 months wrote:Because of Obamination's spending & socialist BS, America and much of the world will endure one of the worst depressions in history in 5...4...3...2...
From Bill McBride:
"Final demand increased in Q1 as personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased at a 3.2% annual rate (up from 1.8% in Q4 2012), and residential investment (RI) increased at a 12.6% annual rate (down from 17.6% in Q4). This was the strongest private domestic contribution (PCE and RI) since Q4 2010, and the 2nd strongest quarter since the recession began.
The negative contributions came from less Federal Government spending (subtracted 0.65 percentage points), less state and local governments spending (subtracted 0.14 percentage points) and from trade (subtracted 0.50 percentage points).
Overall this was a medicore report and below expectations (mostly due to government spending and trade). The increase in PCE and RI were positives, but the ongoing government budget cuts continue to slow the economy. "
