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Russia grew faster than all the G7 economies last year and the IMF forecasts it will again in 2024 (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To make matters even worse, the GDP is usually a garbage neoclassical economics metric that doesn’t differentiate between the real economy and the FIRE economy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yea I mean if we're talking percentage then the (pre-2022) reference point is the size of Spain's economy. And if it shrunk in 2022 then why shouldn't it be able to grow by 3% while at war right?