ECONOMIC UPDATE….GDP was up 3.9% last quarter, well ahead of expectations. BEA press release here. If not for the housing slump, it would have been up 4.9%.
Things just get mysteriouser and mysteriouser. Where’s all this dough going? I await macroeconomic analysis from the big brains of the econosphere.
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