"The $18 trillion you brought is creating an economic boom," Loeffler said. "We will have 7 percent GDP growth. "There is no $18 trillion, and we are absolutely not going to have 7% GDP growth. "You have to completely economically illiterate to believe that there has been an $18 trillion influx of foreign investment," wrote Jessica Reidl of the Brookings Institution. "(Which would have created 60% GDP growth and required filling 100 million new jobs out of the 7.5 million unemployed workers)."