{"id":7698,"date":"2015-04-30T05:46:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T10:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7698"},"modified":"2015-04-30T05:46:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T10:46:12","slug":"16-signs-that-the-economy-has-stalled-out-and-the-next-economic-downturn-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7698","title":{"rendered":"16 Signs That The Economy Has Stalled Out And The Next Economic Downturn Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/16-signs-that-the-economy-has-stalled-out-and-the-next-economic-downturn-is-here\" target=\"_blank\">16 Signs That The Economy Has Stalled Out And The Next Economic Downturn Is Here<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>If U.S. economic growth falls any lower, we are officially going to be in recession territory.\u00a0 On Wednesday, we learned that U.S. GDP grew at a 0.2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2015.\u00a0 That was much lower than all of the \u201cexperts\u201d were projecting.\u00a0 And of course there are all sorts of questions whether the GDP numbers the government feeds us are legitimate anyway.\u00a0 According to\u00a0<a title=\"John Williams of shadowstats.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowstats.com\/alternate_data\/gross-domestic-product-charts\" target=\"_blank\">John Williams of shadowstats.com<\/a>, if honest numbers were used they would show that U.S. GDP growth has been continuously negative since 2005.\u00a0 But even if we consider the number that the government has given us to be the \u201creal\u201d number, it still shows that the U.S. economy has stalled out.\u00a0 It is almost as if we have hit a \u201cturning point\u201d, and there are many out there (<a title=\"including myself\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/11-signs-that-we-are-entering-the-next-phase-of-the-global-economic-crisis\">including myself<\/a>) that believe that the next major economic downturn is dead ahead.\u00a0 As you will see in this article, a whole bunch of things are happening right now that we would expect to see if a recession was beginning.\u00a0 The following are 16 signs that the economy has stalled out and the next economic downturn is here\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>#1<\/strong>\u00a0We just learned that U.S. GDP grew at an anemic\u00a0<a title=\"0.2 percent annual rate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/04\/29\/the-u-s-will-release-economic-growth-this-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\">0.2 percent annual rate<\/a>\u00a0during the first quarter of 2015\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The gross domestic product grew between January and March at an annualized rate of 0.2 percent, the U.S. Commerce Department said, adding to the picture of an economy braking sharply after accelerating for much of last year. The pace fell well shy of the 1 percent mark anticipated by analysts and marked the weakest quarter in a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 Signs That The Economy Has Stalled Out And The Next Economic Downturn Is Here If U.S. economic growth falls any lower, we are officially going to be in recession territory.\u00a0 On Wednesday, we learned that U.S. GDP grew at a 0.2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2015.\u00a0 That was much lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[240,353,459,1426,655,1264,1010,2084],"class_list":["post-7698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-economic-growth","tag-gdp","tag-john-williams","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-recession","tag-shadowstats","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7699,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions\/7699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}