{"id":11276,"date":"2013-02-19T15:46:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T07:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2013-02-19T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T08:18:09","slug":"2662-guess-the-growth-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=11276","title":{"rendered":"[2662] Guess the GDP growth rate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div id=\"polls-9\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How fast, do you think, did the Malaysian economy grow in the fourth quarter of 2012 in real terms from a year ago?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-9-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>6% and above <small>(0%, 0 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 1%;\" title=\"6% and above (0% | 0 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>5.5%-5.9% <small>(16%, 3 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 16%;\" title=\"5.5%-5.9% (16% | 3 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>5.0%-5.4% <small>(47%, 9 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 47%;\" title=\"5.0%-5.4% (47% | 9 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>4.5%-4.9% <small>(11%, 2 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 11%;\" title=\"4.5%-4.9% (11% | 2 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>4.0%-4.4% <small>(5%, 1 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 5%;\" title=\"4.0%-4.4% (5% | 1 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Less than 4.0% <small>(21%, 4 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 21%;\" title=\"Less than 4.0% (21% | 4 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total Voters: <strong>19<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_9_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"f6a338ded4\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-9-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here is some background. Malaysian exports did badly in the fourth quarter. Europe and the US suffered from contraction at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, domestic demand appeared strong. Private consumption growth was likely pretty solid.<\/p>\n<p>In the first, second and third quarter, the real GDP grew by 5.1%, 5.6% and 5.2% from a year ago respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Out of 21 private economists surveyed by Bloomberg, the median estimate is 5.5% growth. The highest projection is 6.4%. The lowest is 4.3%. My own model estimates it to be 5.2% (this is based on old data and I have not touched it for almost two months).<\/p>\n<p>But they are economists. What do they know, eh?<\/p>\n<p>So, what is your favorite number?<\/p>\n<p>The official GDP numbers will be released tomorrow by the Department of Statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is some background. Malaysian exports did badly in the fourth quarter. Europe and the US suffered from contraction at the same time. Nevertheless, domestic demand appeared strong. Private consumption growth was likely pretty solid. In the first, second and third quarter, the real GDP grew by 5.1%, 5.6% and 5.2% from a year ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[304],"class_list":["post-11276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-wdyt","tag-gdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11276"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11278,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions\/11278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}