GDP increasing as the economy shrinks is a good example of the rich getting richer as the bottom is taken out of the employment base with the shrinking economy. The only way the leadership of a Fascist structured governance can survive is to allow the rich to get richer and the poor get poorer with a shrinking economic base as long as the rich are friends of the leadership. In ObaMao's case his friends are the Wall St. investment bankers getting zero interest. AS Kudlow says "even a banker can make money borrowing at zero interest." There are a lot of airheads who think they don't like supply side economics until their own supply of benefits are cut, which eventually happens with a shrinking economy.