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The biggest issue one person raised is how do you separate out government spending form GDP? (Note that I agree with your larger point) One discussion of this
by Anechoic 1y ago
The biggest issue one person raised is how do you separate out government spending form GDP?
(Note that I agree with your larger point)
One discussion of this point can be found in an Indicator podcast[0] from a couple of months ago.
[0] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1237470062 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1237470062
- braiamp 1y agoAnd that issue is non-starter, for the same reasons given in the podcast you even linked: > GDP is just GDP. It's just like, how big is the economy? It's not that hard. And you can't take the government part out of it because the government is a significant part of that.