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   US economy contracted record 32.9% in Q2 amid state shutdowns, C   
      
   The U.S. economy turned in its worst performance ever in the second   
   quarter as the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered businesses across the country   
   and consumers hunkered down at home.   
      
   The nation’s gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services   
   produced in the U.S., contracted at a staggering seasonally adjusted   
   annual rate of 32.9% in the April-June period, the Commerce Department   
   said Thursday.   
      
   Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had forecast a 34.8% drop in GDP. To   
   put the plunge in perspective, it was about three times larger than the   
   previous largest drop in quarterly output.   
      
   "The GDP numbers are mind-boggling," said Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S.   
   economist of Pantheon Macroeconomics.   
      
   The free fall was driven by a historic 34.6% pullback in consumer   
   spending as states closed down nonessential businesses such as   
   restaurants, malls and movie theaters, and Americans avoided public   
   gathering spots and travel out of contagion fear   
      
      
   By the numbers :   
      
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   340 Golf games.   
      
   $350m spent on golf travel   
      
   1/5th time on vacation   
      
   150,000 dead   
      
   4,000,000 infected   
      
   25,000,000 unemployed   
      
   600,000 private businesses closed   
      
   3,000,000 evictions   
      
   1,000,000 home/business foreclosures   
      
   $5T to added debt   
      
   $$$BB in lost revenue   
      
   $150B welfare payments to farmers 3/yr   
      
   220 criminal indictments   
      
   100s of children in cages   
      
   50 convictions   
      
   25 woman assaulted   
      
   24 - missiles launched ny NK   
      
   10+ Prison convictions   
      
   5 - love letters sent to Kim Umg   
      
   2 - porn actresses paid $300,000   
      
   1 - 13 year old girl raped   
      
      
   1 impeachment   
      
      
      
   Did I miss anything ?   
      
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