One of my favorite Abbott & Costello gags was when Bud cheated Lou out of a winning poker hand by claiming he had a rare "kangaroo straight," meaning he had a 2-4-6-8-10 run, all different suits, while gullible Lou "only" had two pair (watch it on YouTube).
On Wednesday we got another chapter in the "kangaroo economy." The Commerce Department reported that U.S. GDP grew only 0.2% at an annualized rate in the first quarter of the year. That was down from 2.2% in the previous quarter and well off the 5.0% and 4.6% paces, respectively, of the two quarters before that. But it was in line with the first quarter of 2014's drop of 2.1%. Continue reading "The Kangaroo Economy"
