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this_user on April 30, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quart...

All these data are backward looking. The employment numbers were for March before "Liberation Day". The real impact of all of this will only become apparent in the full Q2 data.

surgical_fire on April 30, 2025 [–]

Actually Q3. In Q2 companies will be offloading all the things they imported ahead of tarriffs kick in.

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