• RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Reminds me of the post of the dad with the baby growth doubling… on track to be trillion tons by age 21

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    This is just the rebound effect. When you reach the bottom, any step up looks huge.

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    Line must go up thinking, plus cherry-picking metrics. There are better things to chase than GDP.

  • Blóðbók@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    Am mildly curious to know what circumstance and economic policies might have contributed to this. Always good to study successful recipes.

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      7 months ago

      For starters, it is relatively weak and small in absolute terms (compared to the rest of the EU). So even though it may be interesting to study. There will be very little you can take away from it and apply it elsewhere with the same results.

    • sic_1@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      Agreed. This level of success certainly doesn’t come from the austerity policies dictated by foreign politicians.