Do you think global economic growth is slowing down?

[HenryTo]

Here is our latest poll question: Do you think global economic growth is now slowing down? Please also feel free to share your thoughts and opinions with us on this same thread.

[Lubov]

I've answered - Perhaps There are several reasons for this decision:
First of all, as for the economy of own my contry (Belarus), all newspapers and statistical yearbooks shout about a great growth of the economy (but I don't sure in such great growth).
Secondly, in the majority of countries may be observed the economic grouth (though and at a slow pace).
Thirdly, as for the theory, the higher level of development of the country the slower its growth rate.
That's why I still need to see more evidence for a global economic slowdown.

[PonderThis]

The group of people below the 80% line on the normal curve are set up to feel pain in the upcoming decade. This leads to unsettling times and economic retrenchment. There is too much popular complacency and the system of capitalism is doing what it's supposed to do - weed out weak thinking. It should be a rough process though.
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[ablefoxtrot]

I agree with noodoodahs that there's no good measure for real economic growth, so 'perhaps'.

But from anecdotal evidence of quality of life in the USA being squeezed like road kill, and the observation that from the top of a credit bubble mountain, all trails lead down for those with a shrinking manufacturing base, a serious world economic slowdown will become apparent within the next two years, IMHO the bears ain't in it, yet.

[nodoodahs]

I say "perhaps" simply because we don't have any measurement tools for "economic growth."

We have measurements of GDP, but GDP<>Economy.
Maybe GDP ~ Consumption ... but <> Economy.
Likewise because CPI<>Inflation, it follows that
"Real GDP"=doodleysquat.