{"id":2468655,"date":"2025-07-30T12:29:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economic-data-shreds-remaining-credibility-of-propaganda-press\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:33:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:33:33","slug":"economic-data-shreds-remaining-credibility-of-propaganda-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economic-data-shreds-remaining-credibility-of-propaganda-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Data Shreds Remaining Credibility Of Propaganda Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feconomic-data-shreds-remaining-credibility-of-propaganda-press%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2468655&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Recent data from the U.S. Commerce Department revealed that the U.S. economy grew at a 3 percent annual rate in the second quarter of 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-housing-starts-surge-in-boost-to-economy\/\" title=\"US Housing Starts Surge in Boost to ...\">surpassing economists&#8217; expectations<\/a> of about 2 percent growth.Inflation also cooled, dropping to 2.1 percent from 3.7 percent in the previous quarter. This growth was driven by improvements in the trade balance and renewed consumer strength.<\/p>\n<p>Despite widespread predictions from many media outlets and economic experts that President Trump&#8217;s tariffs would harm the economy-forecasting recessions,inflation spikes,and slower growth-the actual economic data has contradicted these warnings. Various news sources had anticipated negative impacts ranging from economic slowdowns to stagflation, but the current figures show resilience and better-than-expected expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Some commentators and media outlets have attempted to downplay the positive report, suggesting that tariffs might be distorting economic data or masking underlying weaknesses. However, the overall evidence indicates that the economy is performing well despite tariffs, calling into question the accuracy of earlier dire forecasts about the negative effects of Trump&#8217;s trade policies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&ldquo;Better than expected,&rdquo; CNBC&rsquo;s Rick Santelli <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1950537156511809909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> Wednesday morning as fresh data revealed the economy grew at a three percent rate in the second quarter. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bea.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-07\/gdp2q25-adv.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Data<\/a> from the Commerce Department shows the U.S. economy expanded at an annual rate of three percent from April through June, surpassing economists&rsquo; forecast of approximately two percent growth. Inflation also continues to cool, with the annual rate of inflation at 2.1 percent in the second quarter, compared to 3.7 percent in the first. As CNBC&rsquo;s Jeff Cox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/07\/30\/gdp-q2-2025-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, the growth is &ldquo;powered by a turnaround in the trade balance and renewed consumer strength.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And as National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said on CNBC, &ldquo;The anti-Trump story has been that we&rsquo;re going to have a recession or a depression because of the tariffs, which are going to jack up prices and cause consumers to run for the exits. In fact, every single thing about this GDP release has shown strength.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But surely this can&rsquo;t be true &mdash; after all, we were reliably informed by the left-wing press that Trump&rsquo;s tariffs would &ldquo;hurt&rdquo; the economy, at least so said the &ldquo;experts,&rdquo; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-tariffs-economists-forecast-stagflation-recession-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBS News&rsquo; Aimee Picchi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called &ldquo;experts&rdquo; warned that the tariffs could lead to a &ldquo;dire economic&rdquo; scenario, including the acceleration of inflation. <\/p>\n<p>Business Insider&rsquo;s Julia Press, Rachael Lewis-Krisky, and David Gura <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-27\/trump-tariffs-have-already-hit-global-gdp-trade-us-economy?embedded-checkout=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a> &ldquo;The Impact of President Trump&rsquo;s Trade War May Be Worse Than You Think.&rdquo; According to the trio, Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;aggressive trade policy&rdquo; would cause &ldquo;cracks&rdquo; in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Time Magazine&rsquo;s Solcyr&eacute; Burga <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7290808\/trump-tariffs-oecd-economic-forecast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> that according to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >turbulent tariff policy&#038;rdquo<\/a>; would &ldquo;cause a sharper slowdown in economic growth&rdquo; and that inflation could also increase. <\/p>\n<p>CNN&rsquo;s Elisabeth Buchwald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/05\/01\/economy\/us-gdp-economy-weaker-than-it-appears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a> in May that &ldquo;America&rsquo;s economy may actually be even weaker than it appears,&rdquo; quoting senior economist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute Ryan Young, who warned CNN that &ldquo;The second-quarter GDP numbers could be brutal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/top-stories\/latest\/new-economic-data-raise-alarm-trump-inflation-unemployment-rcna215267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Allison Detzel<\/a> &mdash; citing &ldquo;charts&rdquo; from <em>Morning Joe<\/em> (you know, the same show where the host told the public that then-President Joe Biden was the &ldquo;best&rdquo; version he had ever been), wrote in June that &ldquo;new data could signal trouble ahead for Donald Trump&rsquo;s economy.&rdquo; Apparently the economy was going to grow &ldquo;exactly half of what we grew in the last year of Biden,&rdquo; former Obama-official and MSNBC analyst Steve Rattner said, as reported by Detzel.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2025\/07\/11\/trump-tariffs-trade-business-investment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">editorial board<\/a> wrote less than three weeks ago that the &ldquo;damage&rdquo; of Trump&rsquo;s tariffs &ldquo;is starting to show.&rdquo; According to the board, while Trump&rsquo;s tariffs might have seemed &ldquo;costless&rdquo; it was just because they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-removing-noncitizens-from-census-would-affect-elections\/\" title=\"Trump Removing Noncitizens From Census Would Affect Elections\">needed time &#038;ldquo<\/a>;to ripple through the economy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Well, they&rsquo;ve certainly rippled &mdash; just not in the way the press or the &ldquo;experts&rdquo; predicted. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, such glaring errors in analysis might lead some to humility, or at least accurate reporting of the latest numbers. But, alas, such is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>NPR&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/07\/30\/nx-s1-5484219\/economy-gdp-tariffs-growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scott Horsley<\/a> quickly tried to downplay the report, writing &ldquo;The U.S. economy rebounds to 3% growth in second quarter &mdash; but tariffs skew picture.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/rebound-us-economic-growth-q2-masks-underlying-weakness-2025-07-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters&rsquo;<\/a> Lucia Mutikani declared: &ldquo;Rebound in US economic growth in Q2 masks underlying weakness.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Mutikani writes that while the economy &ldquo;rebounded more than expected,&rdquo; the numbers &ldquo;grossly overstated the economy&rsquo;s health,&rdquo; citing declining imports and a slow down in &ldquo;domestic demand.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>CNN&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/30\/economy\/us-gdp-q2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bryan Mena<\/a> wrote that &ldquo;The economy is holding up &mdash; for now.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/californian-titan-to-cut-15-of-workforce-amid-500-billion-budget-slash-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Californian titan to cut 15% of workforce amid 0 billion budget slash ... Washington Examiner\">economy isn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t out of the woods and things could take a turn for the worse,&rdquo; Mena wrote, arguing that &ldquo;core GDP&rdquo; was slowing down.<\/p>\n<p>And The New York Times&rsquo; Ben Casselman, not to be outdone, headlined his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/30\/business\/us-economy-grew-in-second-quarter-as-tariffs-scrambled-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">piece<\/a> &ldquo;U.S Economy Slowed in First Half of 2025 as Tariffs Scrambled Data,&rdquo; before acknowledging that gross domestic product &ldquo;increased at a 3 percent annual rate in the second quarter,&rdquo; which &ldquo;topped forecasters&rsquo; expectations and appeared to represent a strong rebound.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For all the media&rsquo;s breathless warnings and dire forecasts, the numbers show the economy isn&rsquo;t collapsing under Trump&rsquo;s tariffs &mdash; instead it&rsquo;s outperforming expectations. Maybe it&rsquo;s time the &ldquo;experts&rdquo; take a break from fear mongering. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better than expected,&#8221; CNBC&#8217;s Rick Santelli said as new data showed the U.S. economy grew 3% in Q2, beating forecasts of about 2%. Inflation also eased<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2468656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rick-Santelli-pic-2-scaled-e1753889601701.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[55325,54661,60262,4488],"class_list":["post-2468655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-economic-data","tag-media-credibility","tag-press-analysis","tag-propaganda"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rick-Santelli-pic-2-scaled-e1753889601701.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468659,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468655\/revisions\/2468659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2468656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}