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submitted 11 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

The concept is called “imputations” — which are “what if” scenarios.

Example: When a person buys a home, the gov adds that person’s imaginary rent to the GDP!

That is, if he didn’t buy a home, he would have spent X dollars on rent. There are two more shenanigans like that you can read in the article.

By this measure, China has already caught up with the US a long time ago.

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[-] NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

With Europe it must be some 60% that is fake. Probably more.

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