What’s Wrong With 5 Percent Growth? Or Even Better?

Just to reprise my New Year’s message that a Trump economic boom could deliver 5 percent, 6 percent, or even 7 percent growth, there are numbers out today that are uniformly stronger than even I thought. Economists take note: President Trump knows the economy better than you do. And what’s wrong with 5 percent or better growth?The Atlanta Fed GDPNow for the fourth quarter, which you recall was the shutdown quarter, was revised up to 5.4 percent.Meanwhile, the productivity of the economy, which is one of the most significant variables, has averaged 4.5 percent the last two quarters. That’s output per hour, for the non-farm economy.Perhaps more importantly, non-financial corporate productivity, last two quarters, is up 3.8 percent.So, productivity trending around 4 percent opens the door wide open for 5-percent plus economic growth.And once again, I want to remind everyone about the greatest story never told, that sinking oil prices, which is a positive oil shock, which means it’s like a big tax cut for consumer and business, which is to say Trump deflation is replacing Biden inflation.And a whiff of deflation from oil after nearly 5 years of Covid-Biden inflation, is a very big positive for the economy.Democrats are absolutely frozen in place and paralyzed over the success of Mr. Trump’s economic policies: supply-side tax cuts, deregulation, drill, baby, drill, and free and fair reciprocal trade.As the numbers come rolling in, and as team Trump markets them, the midterm election outlook looks rosier and rosier for the GOP.Treasury man Scott Bessent, speaking at the Minnesota Economic Club (is the Minnesota Economic Club an oxymoron?), reminded folks about the wage and productivity, and growth benefits of full expensing for factories, equipment, and farm structures.Capital expenditure business investment spending is running plus 12 percent through the first three quarters of last year, but not even he seems to apply the positives of falling oil prices that permeate the entire economy.There are going to be some negative CPI prints coming up. That’s how important energy is. It’s not just gasoline, although that’s softening. It’s hundreds of other prices affected by falling petroleum costs.And meanwhile, initial jobless claims keep declining on the four-week average, the trade deficit in October fell by way more than expected.And here is Mr. Trump and his, “drill, baby, drill” purging communism from the Western Hemisphere in the Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. And shifting the nexus of oil power from the Persian Gulf to the Americas, right where it belongs.From Mr. Kudlow’s broadcast on Fox Business Network.

What’s Wrong With 5 Percent Growth? Or Even Better?

What’s Wrong With 5 Percent Growth? Or Even Better?

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