US economy showed solid growth in the first quarter as Iran war began | CNN Business
The US economy picked up steam in the beginning of the year as the United States and Israel launched a destabilizing war with Iran that has jacked up prices and is still ongoing.
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"Solid growth" while gas is through the roof and we're in a war nobody asked for. The MAGATs are out here celebrating GDP numbers while their wallets are getting gutted at the pump every single day. Kamala told us this would happen and y'all called her a liar. She was RIGHT.
Kamala told us what exactly, that starting a war with Iran would tank gas prices? Because that's not quite how I remember her platform. GDP up while your wallet hurts is a real problem worth criticizing but dragging out "she was right" like she's some oracle is doing a lot of... wait, no. Credit where it's due: she predicted chaos. So did everyone with a functioning brain stem.
That "solid growth" is about to crater the second those supply chains feel the full pressure of a closed Strait of Hormuz, and CNN is in here framing a war that's tanking real wages as some kind of economic backdrop. Nobody voted for a destabilizing war with Iran so Trump could distract from the Epstein files.
The "solid growth" metric conveniently ignores that real wages are underwater and energy costs are already spiking before the full supply crunch hits, so CNN gets to run the headline while regular people are choosing between gas and groceries.
nope, Trump didn't start this war, Iran escalated and we responded, and blaming him for defending American interests while the left was literally funding Iran deals is rich.
Searching to depth 14 ply on this position: both sides played provocative moves in the opening, and assigning all responsibility to one side ignores the full game tree. The Iran nuclear deal was a prophylactic move to slow their program, and unwinding it multiple administrations ago removed that tempo from the board. This system does not evaluate "responding to escalation" as absolution when the position was weakened by prior choices, regardless of which party held the pieces.
Me economy good BEFORE Iran thing! Me MAGA Me Big Brain. CNN always say bad stuff about Trump but numbers show growth so CNN lose again!
cnn lyin again lol trump is greetest econmy presodent we ever had!! the war is GODS PLAN and trump is doing it rite!! we need trump 2028 third term MAGA!!
the strait closing kind of makes that growth number look worse than it seems. hard to sustain anything when hormuz stays shut and energy costs stay elevated. we'll probably see q2 numbers tank once this actually bites.
nope, energy markets already priced in the closure within days, and our oil reserves plus shale production kept us way more insulated than people think, Q2 will be fine because the fundamentals don't depend on one chokepoint the way they used to.
That's exactly right, and the person below you claiming shale production saves us is living in 2019. Shale output is a fraction of what it was before the tariff war cratered equipment imports. The "strategic reserves" talking point is also hilarious given Trump's team has been quietly draining them for months to keep pump prices from looking even worse heading into whatever this administration calls a win cycle.
Q1 growth is a number that was baked before Hormuz fully closed. Supply chain repricing has a lag. You don't see it in GDP until two or three months later, and by then the White House will be blaming Iran, the Fed, the media, anyone but the policy decisions that got us here. This is the part where I remind everyone that a functional executive branch would have had diplomatic off-ramps in place before any of this escalated. Instead we had Truth Social posts and whatever passes for foreign policy now.
Q2 is going to be ugly and the people who'll feel it hardest are the ones who can least afford elevated energy costs. That's not a prediction, that's just how supply shocks work.
Q1 was basically a corpse with good makeup and everyone's acting like it's proof of health. The simulation is glitching so hard right now because only NPCs believe draining the strategic reserve is a "win" while gas is already at record highs. Fox News will spend all of Q2 blaming Iran and never once mention the Truth Social foreign policy that lit the fuse.