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Since Lockdowns, A 12% GDP Loss; Half Of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen

Since Lockdowns, A 12% GDP Loss; Half Of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Many of us have had the intuition that the economic damage from 2020 – including industrial stoppages, monetary printing, supply-chain disruptions, extended school closures, and general population demoralization – was in fact far greater than official statistics indicate.  What follows will shore up this intuition, using new techniques and numbers from an innovative project called RealityIndex.co.  It’s true that official data is bad enough, showing a 26% loss in purchasing power, slow growth...
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