pyetro
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Donald Trump's atrocious handling of the pandemic, encouraging people not to wear masks, making the consequences worse, took its toll. What a bad President we had.
www.cnn.com
For 2020 as a whole, GDP decreased by 3.5% from the prior year. That was the worst decline since 1946.
It was the first time US GDP declined since 2009, when it fell 2.5% during the the financial crisis.
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Last year's American economy shrank the most since 1946
The US economy grew at an annualized and seasonally adjusted rate of 4% in the fourth quarter of 2020, just as economists had predicted, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. But that didn't make up for a bad first quarter and an historically awful second quarter.
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