strugglingchef: Oh yeah, in case you didn't hear it anywhere else, Europe is back in Recession and the US might be as well
Issyl: ? As in GDP decrease?
Issyl: I knew Europe was back in recession, that was obvious.
Issyl: Unemployment is going back up in Europe since 2010
strugglingchef: I dunno, I just heard the IMF is going f'n nuts right now
Issyl: and even the UK and France have been losing GDP
Issyl: but I hadn't heard of any losses in US GDP since 2009;
Issyl: 2009.
strugglingchef: If you can't trust the CPI, how can you know real GDP?
Issyl: haha, well. Fair enough. But I'll have to see a large effect elsewhere before I believe it. US stock indices have been holding steady.
strugglingchef: ARGH, stocks have been holding steady despite reports of low earnings
Issyl: But yeah, all the GIPSI and the UK and France have been losing GDP and gaining unemployment, that's been going on for months now.
strugglingchef: it's all QE stock prices
Issyl: quantitative awesome will bring the USA back into glorious prosperity and everyone will worship John Maynard Keynes statues and the works of the austrian school of whiny philosophy will be forgotten forever as Peter Schiff goes crazy and is institutionalized. Paul Krugman becomes president in 2016.
strugglingchef: I will ban your IP address and delete you from my Internet
Issyl: :3
strugglingchef: I'm going to be the dicatator of a small tropical island for a while
Issyl: k, good luck
Issyl: kill some commies for me
strugglingchef: I always ally with USSR
Issyl: lame