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$180B per week would be $9.4T per year. Almost half of the economy in stimulus seems likely to be quite inflationary.

You’re comparing weekly stimulus numbers to annual GDP numbers.

If you compare the stimulus payments in similar annualized terms it is nearly half of GDP. $9.36 Trillion.

Having said that, the relevance of GDP in a conversation about inflation is unclear to me when GDP does not account for inflation.

GDP is often quoted as Real GDP using chained prices. So it does account for inflation.

Thanks I clicked through the Wikipedia reference and the IMF numbers quoted do appear to be Real GDP.

$180-billion per week is $9-trillion per year - it’s almost half of GDP.