GDP looks bad? So what if we just change how we calculate it to make it look better? Is that how we should process this information? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/b... - ThreadSky

stephruhle.bsky.social • 15 days ago

GDP looks bad? So what if we just change how we calculate it to make it look better?
Is that how we should process this information?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/business/commerce-secretarys-comments-raise-fears-of-interference-in-federal-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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mico71.bsky.social•15 days ago

Stop being kind to those republicans !! They are destroying the americans economy and world peace ! It's clear trump have a putin mandate to destroy north America
WAKE UP !

stephjmom.bsky.social•15 days ago

Um ... yep.

Hi Steph 🙋

jay-b-eazy.bsky.social•15 days ago

Painting the roses red.

blessedbygracek.bsky.social•15 days ago

So what are we going to do about it

bebops-mom.bsky.social•15 days ago

It’s going to look worse! DJT is bankrupting the U.S. & DOGE has access to the checkbook, IRS-major data breach. How secure do we feel???

hopelong.bsky.social•15 days ago

That $850B+ defense spending? NASA? SpaceX and StarLink are gov’t contractions.
Donnie’s golf games 🤔🤷

ezyv.bsky.social•15 days ago

Better yet, just make some shit up.

notatrillionaire.bsky.social•5 days ago

Sounds typical of narcissistic people. Lutnick sounds off the rails when he talks. Does he really think tariffs bring in cash ? Maybe he really doesn’t know. Maybe his reputation will never recover.

texascommonsense.bsky.social•15 days ago

They’re unveiling the Orange Buffoon’s “sharpie version” of the GDP. Based on the formula Russia & China use

mileslynd.bsky.social•15 days ago

I wish you would post the discussion you had with Jen Psaki about Crypto. That was excellent.

john5789.bsky.social•15 days ago

So can we make a great big loss into great big gain.

Can we use that at the bank when we need more money after a very bad year …?

webtrade.bsky.social•14 days ago

Please stop describing Bessent as some talented fund manager. He’s had a couple of funds close down due to lack luster performance. He’s had a couple of block buster trades. A broken clock is right twice a day and it appears he is mistaking luck for brains. His last good trade was over 10 years ago.

ralcarbo.bsky.social•13 days ago

But he’s willing to do Trump’s bidding and he looks good for the part.

reneehere.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yah, just alter the facts.. Fool people!

robertmarek.bsky.social•6 days ago

These 20 something hackers are also deleting data. Data that is used for a variety of forecasting purposes. Things are going to turn really ugly for some billionaires.

markmnyc.bsky.social•15 days ago

Then, when they're forced to hire a bunch of people back, they'll add it back in.

ivanthek.bsky.social•15 days ago

The Non-GAAP Presidency™

billwinterberg.bsky.social•15 days ago

Politically-adjusted EBITDA

timingiseverything.bsky.social•4 days ago

Get out the sharpie…

sharondibagno.bsky.social•15 days ago

Hi Stephanie! I've watched your show since the first episode. I respect you and appreciate the way you deliver factual and truthful information delivered in your adorable sassy way. Don't think I didn't notice your wardrobe since the election. I rally around the dark color choice.

cb-2025.bsky.social•15 days ago

Loser

crunch-a-rama.bsky.social•15 days ago

Did Donny hire his old “double ledger” bookkeeper?

jbor9401.bsky.social•14 days ago

GDP sums up all the incomes earned by factors of production within an economy during a specific period. Let's use the incomes of Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk & Cook, average their income, say its us and pretend we have a representative GDP.

amandasorcerer.bsky.social•15 days ago

SO disappointed you cannot say "no men in womens sports". How can that EVER be ok?? Will it only matter when it's your daughter who trains for yrs goes up against a dude and loses her scholarship? So ONE guy in a dress has more rights than a biological woman?? It's continued ABUSE against women.

amandasorcerer.bsky.social•15 days ago

AND you said 'oh, we're only talkin about 10 transgenders in US colleges'. It matters if its ONE guy when it's your daughter having to compete against him!! How can you not get that??

stephruhle.bsky.social•15 days ago

Nope. I am not saying that at all.
If they want to ban it bc of one athlete or entirely preventative…. Just say that!

There is just no need to misrepresent what is currently happening.

amandasorcerer.bsky.social•14 days ago

Agreed. But it must be banned even if it's one trans-gen bc if it's just one girl who loses her future bc of a guy who was selfish enough to compete against a woman knowing he is stronger, that bio-male is F'd up and outrageously selfish. Banning is the answer. PS. thx for the reply! Love your show!

auralsects.bsky.social•15 days ago

#PREACH Tru Dat Ms. Ruhle thanks for the clarification

themockers.bsky.social•15 days ago

We were never at war with Eurasia.

debdo2.bsky.social•15 days ago

As a CPA, that’s exactly what I thought when I heard this yesterday.. WTF!

sgw73072.bsky.social•15 days ago

Thanks Stephanie. But this is exactly how G. W. Bush made the fed budget look "reasonable" after invading Iraq & continued our war in Afghanistan. His administration simply said those wars were "off the books." In 1968 LBJ created the "unified budget" to create a single govt. fiscal position.

jennycom.bsky.social•15 days ago

IMP! My TIAA retirement landing page now strangely censored: used have daily updates in RED (--loss amount) or GREEN (+gain amount). Today, I LOST $4,000 and there is no. more. red. --! This canNOT be an accident. Did Trump order this?

ramstandsstrong.bsky.social•15 days ago

Yep! There’s your answer! Can someone please wake me up. Remind me, was the Obama administration this bad? I’m just curious.

christineg123.bsky.social•13 days ago

Stephanie, why do we need cuts in Medicaid and Medicare if Mr Toxic Muskulenity is saving us Billions by his chainsaw method to jobs and govt leases?

dorisvader.bsky.social•15 days ago

Oh DID he!!!

ellacinders.bsky.social•15 days ago

No government data can be trusted from now on. The CPI will be manipulated to hide the real effect of the tariffs. We’ll never know the true rate of trumpflation.

michelecollins5411.bsky.social•15 days ago

We all knew they would have to start monkeying w/ the numbers.

tribalscribal.bsky.social•15 days ago

As per last night's show we went to https://publicservices.com as your guest advised and got this b.s.:

bebops-mom.bsky.social•15 days ago

It’s “go.savepublicservices.com”

dano1017.bsky.social•15 days ago

Wtf.

sandaura.bsky.social•13 days ago

These people are brain dead

edgarcgonzalez.bsky.social•15 days ago

This guy is following the “Dictatorship for Dummies” to a T.We saw this in Venezuela w/ Chavez.A carbon copy. What happened there was not about “socialism” it was about power at all costs.The enemy here is not a group of inept idiots.These are psychopaths who will stop at nothing.

raidersyourface.bsky.social•15 days ago

The Ministry Of Truth will just look it over and check for errors...

kvett20.bsky.social•15 days ago

There’s no doubts that we’re in store of books being cooked

ryanmichael80.bsky.social•15 days ago

I feel like if we maybe move the decimal point over a few spaces our GDP will have great growth to likes that no one has ever seen!

carolinemaybe.bsky.social•14 days ago

Stephanie Lutnick is busy buying up crypto. He’s who is pushing trump so his crypto explodes.

mdavey10.bsky.social•13 days ago

See this too: https://www.marketplace.org/2025/03/05/advisory-committees-economic-data-commerce-department-bureau-of-labor-statistics/

dmlkatsu.bsky.social•15 days ago

Crib sheeting Orwell’s 1984 for the MAGA herd

readingwarrior.bsky.social•15 days ago

If we don't test, there are no new infections, right?

bluekeb.bsky.social•13 days ago

They’re desperate to justify the tax cut extension that was Trump’s first term book cooking that was supposed to roll off on someone else’s watch. The only solution that supports consumer confidence and the stock market is to not extend. Every other offset will result in economic collapse.

pretefunkera.bsky.social•15 days ago

If you don’t test there is no covid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

nottslassuk.bsky.social•12 days ago

Load of crooks, cooking the country's books. With the Chief Criminal in charge. Learned this skullduggery from his father no doubt, with a sprinkling of Cohn. And a traitor no less.

It's intolerable that the🇺🇸has foisted this upon us all.

We can't trust you any more, on anything.

#ImpeachTrump

nandidad.bsky.social•15 days ago

Alternative math

brently27.bsky.social•15 days ago

I am not as smart as you but I do have a BS in Econ and I don't see how any of this is helping the American people. This is a stupid trade war and it's going to hurt everybody. Well a lot of people voted for this and I hope they learn

peggyamm.bsky.social•15 days ago

soon what was euphemistically referred as cooking the books will be known as Trumpian bookkeeping

wholetree.bsky.social•15 days ago

Trump hates to look bad. (I get the irony of that statement) and he will go to fascistic lengths to try and polish his image. To try and market his ideas and actions as "The Best!"

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