{"id":7686,"date":"2026-10-27T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=7686"},"modified":"2026-10-27T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:26:00","slug":"larry-kudlow-its-more-than-gasoline-the-economic-boom-is-a-story-that-must-be-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=7686","title":{"rendered":"LARRY KUDLOW: It\u2019s more than gasoline \u2014 the economic boom is a story that must be told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/kudlow-2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><!----> <!---->  <\/p>\n<p>The lefty press, to be sure, will only talk about gasoline prices when it comes to the economy. Literally pull up an article, and front and center is going to be gasoline prices. So the whole national discussion isn\u2019t really about the economy, it\u2019s about gas prices. So ok, I get it. Gas prices are uncomfortably high. It\u2019s a problem for some people. I don\u2019t want to deny that.<\/p>\n<p>Actually adjusted for inflation, the prices are about the same today as they were during the Biden years. But let\u2019s not dwell on that. It\u2019s a problem, I admit it. Ditto for high Diesel prices. A big problem for truckers, I get it. Having said that, though, the press has done everyone a great disservice by not talking about all the good news in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>For example, consumers continue to spend. Consumer spending in the first quarter of this year increased 3.4 percent annually after inflation. 3.8 percent in the second quarter. Looks like 3.5 percent in the third quarter that will be reported Thursday. These are big numbers. Dig in some more. Same-store chain sales. Rising almost 10 percent over the past year. That is a huge number. Gross domestic product itself is likely to come in around 3.5 percent in the third quarter when it is reported later this week. So, if gasoline costs are so bad, why is consumer spending so strong?<\/p>\n<p>What about business investment? It\u2019s really the heart of the economy. Not only business investment, but Mark Skousen\u2019s business to business spending are both booming. B-2-B tells you what\u2019s going on under the economy\u2019s hood. The answer: booming. Meanwhile business investment in machinery equipment, factories \u2014 this is the seed corn for future economic growth and productivity and wage gains \u2014 business capital expenditure is absolutely booming. Feature the 15 percent growth in the first half of the year, and it looks like about 16.5 percent capex growth in the third quarter alone. We haven\u2019t seen numbers like this since the Reagan 1980s. Four decades ago. Why isn\u2019t the press reporting that?<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"contain\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>A panel on \u2018Kudlow\u2019 examines economic growth, inflation and tax policy ahead of the midterm elections.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wait a minute, how about the strong labor market. Unemployment claims are at nearly 60-year lows. The unemployment rate is barely above 4 percent. In the last couple of months, more than a million people have re-entered the labor force to get a piece of the economic action. A million new jobs have been created in less than two years. 72,000 manufacturing jobs year to date.\u00a0 Prescription drug prices have dropped by about 4.5 percent in the last year. Egg prices have fallen about 90 percent.<\/p>\n<p>And these goods producing jobs in manufacturing and also construction, are high wage jobs that are beating inflation, even with the gasoline problem. We\u2019re in a technology boom. We\u2019re clobbering Communist China and Europe in the super intelligence race. Nonfinancial corporate productivity is rising more than 3 percent annually over the past two years. That is remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>Profits, the mother\u2019s milk of stocks and the lifeblood of the economy, continue to grow at a record pace, by some 15 percent to 20 percent in most cases. The bullish stock market, which is a predictor of future growth, is near record highs, with more than 150 million people invested through 401ks and union pension funds. The Chinese stock market continues to fall at a double digit pace. American and European GDP was almost the same 20 years ago. Today we\u2019re $10 trillion higher.<\/p>\n<p>In the trillion-dollar club, 13 of the top 15 companies are American. Foreign investment is pouring into America because low taxes and light regulations, and powerful energy is treating foreign capital most hospitably in the global race for investment. And in short as President Trump keeps saying, America has the hottest economy in the world. So why won\u2019t the media report the facts? It\u2019s a story that must be told.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#LARRY #KUDLOW #gasoline #economic #boom #story #told<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lefty press, to be sure, w&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[796,2646,6779,436,435,6677,5966],"class_list":["post-7686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-boom","tag-economic","tag-gasoline","tag-kudlow","tag-larry","tag-story","tag-told"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LARRY KUDLOW: It\u2019s more than gasoline \u2014 the economic boom is a story that must be told - Finance News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=7686\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"zh_CN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LARRY KUDLOW: It\u2019s more than gasoline \u2014 the economic boom is a story that must be told - 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