Tootfinder

So, I dunno, is this believable?
https://www.bea.gov/news/2025/gross-domestic-product-2nd-quarter-2025-advance-estimate

YES!
GDP growth is effectively dead.The motor is broken.
Now it's time to face reality and share the wealth that is so evidently present.
An economy for life!
#degrowth
Blow to Chancellor as UK economy shrank unexpectedly in May

Blow to Chancellor as UK economy shrank unexpectedly in May
The UK economy contracted unexpectedly in May, marking the second month in a row of falling output and heaping further pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.1% in May, following a 0.3% drop in April. Most economists had expected the economy to rebound […]

A November 2024 report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) reflects staggering numbers:
There are an estimated 96 million #birders in the United States
—more than a third of U.S. adults
—who together spent more than $107 billion in 2022.
In total, that’s more money than the 2022 gross domestic product of New Hampshire (and 10 other U.S. states).

Economy and Geography Shape the Collective Attention of Cities
Ke-ke Shang, Jiangli Zhu, Junfan Yi, Liwen Zhang, Junjie Yang, Ge Guo, Zixuan Jin, Michael Small
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08907

Economy and Geography Shape the Collective Attention of Cities
Complex networks are commonly used to explore human behavior. However, previous studies largely overlooked the geographical and economic factors embedded in collective attention. To address this, we construct attention networks from time-series data for the United States and China, each a key economic power in the West and the East, respectively. We reveal a strong macroscale correlation between urban attention and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). At the mesoscale, community detection of attention…

Economic Impacts of Climate Change in the United States: Integrating and Harmonizing Evidence from Recent Studies
Elizabeth Kopits, Daniel Kraynak, Bryan Parthum, Lisa Rennels, David Smith, Elizabeth Spink, Joseph Perla, Nshan Burns
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00212

Economic Impacts of Climate Change in the United States: Integrating and Harmonizing Evidence from Recent Studies
This paper synthesizes evidence on climate change impacts specific to U.S. populations. We develop an apples-to-apples comparison of econometric studies that empirically estimate the relationship between climate change and gross domestic product (GDP). We demonstrate that with harmonized probabilistic socioeconomic and climate inputs these papers project a narrower and lower range of 2100 GDP losses than what is reported across the published studies, yet the implied U.S.-specific social cost of…