The Economy

[MajorRewrite]

More bad economic news. GDP growth in the 4th quarter of 2025 was very low.

New data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis published on Friday showed the economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.4% in the final three months of 2025.

And GDP growth for 2025 was lower than 2024.

For the year, the US economy grew 2.2%, a modest slowdown from the 2.8% growth seen in 2024.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Summary of 2025 economy vs 2024 economy: (updated with GDP, trade balance and PCE inflation)

Unemployment rate
2024: 4.1%
2025: 4.4%

Jobs created:
2024: 2,200,000
2025: 181,000

Manufacturing employment (total, in December):
2024: 12,760,000
2025: 12,692,000

Value of the dollar (DXY index):
2024: up 7%
2025: down 9%

S&P 500:
2024: up 23%
2025: up 16%

Groceries Cost:
2024: up 1.7%
2025: up 2.4%

Medical Care Cost:
2024: up 2.83%
2025: up 3.15%

Housing Cost:
2024: up 4.07%
2025: up 3.60%

Core Inflation Rate (excludes food and energy)(core CPI):
2024: 3.2%
2025: 2.6%

Core PCE Inflation Rate:
2024: 2.8%
2025: 3.0%

Average price of electricity per kilowatt-hour
December 2024: $0.176
December 2025: $0.189

Trade Balance
2024 trade deficit: $903.5 billion
2025 trade deficit: $901.5 billion (0.22% decrease)

GDP Growth
2024: 2.8%
2025: 2.2%

 

[heathrowinneo]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jpmorgan-analysis-finds-trump-tariffs-171826860.html

Hopefully some of the $175B that should be repatriated back from the tariffs paid find their way to small businesses. Too many small businesses and farmers, yes they voted for trump, have been hurt by tariffs. The Yale Budget Lab also projects that the average American household will save roughly$1.3k without. But they will find another mechanism to fund their deficit spending. And will someone wake congress up to do their job?

 

[heathrowinneo]

Summary of 2025 economy vs 2024 economy: (updated with GDP, trade balance and PCE inflation)

Unemployment rate
2024: 4.1%
2025: 4.4%

Jobs created:
2024: 2,200,000
2025: 181,000

Manufacturing employment (total, in December):
2024: 12,760,000
2025: 12,692,000

Value of the dollar (DXY index):
2024: up 7%
2025: down 9%

S&P 500:
2024: up 23%
2025: up 16%

Groceries Cost:
2024: up 1.7%
2025: up 2.4%

Medical Care Cost:
2024: up 2.83%
2025: up 3.15%

Housing Cost:
2024: up 4.07%
2025: up 3.60%

Core Inflation Rate (excludes food and energy)(core CPI):
2024: 3.2%
2025: 2.6%

Core PCE Inflation Rate:
2024: 2.8%
2025: 3.0%

Average price of electricity per kilowatt-hour
December 2024: $0.176
December 2025: $0.189

Trade Balance
2024 trade deficit: $903.5 billion
2025 trade deficit: $901.5 billion (0.22% decrease)

GDP Growth
2024: 2.8%
2025: 2.2%

The economy is weakening and cracks are showing. Job growth in very concentrated sectors. Growing deficits. Trade issues continue to fester. And now war planning.

 

[DeluxAuto]

*The PCE price index increased 3.0 percent from one year ago.*

Real PCE increased $11.5 billion (0.1 percent at a monthly rate) in December.

From the preceding month, the PCE price index for December increased 0.4 percent. Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index also increased 0.4 percent.

From the same month one year ago, the PCE price index for December increased 2.9 percent. Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index increased 3.0 percent from one year ago.

 

[Iluv17]

And this is the way its gonna be PERIOD!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...thing-radically-different-americas-economist/

 

[RobDownSouth]

Whew....talk about putting your money where your mouth is.

On January 6th, "someone" (nobody really knows who) place a one Trillion-with-a-T dollar market purchase on the direction of the Fed's next mortgage rate adjustment. All perfectly legal but it breaks the record for the single largest financial purchase by a private investor in American history...doubling the previous record trade.

The speculator placed a bet that the next mortgage rate change announcement would be that the Fed would not make any change to the prime interest rate whatsoever. Each 1/100 of a percentage point change would result in an instant 8 million dollar loss for the speculator.

Mushbrain has been twisting arms at the Federal Reserve and the consensus was that he was going to be successful at coercing the Fed into lowering rates for the Congressional midterms.

Someone with balls of brass is betting against Orange Hitler in a major way.

 

[SebastianHolt]

Whew....talk about putting your money where your mouth is.

On January 6th, "someone" (nobody really knows who) place a one Trillion-with-a-T dollar market purchase on the direction of the Fed's next mortgage rate adjustment. All perfectly legal but it breaks the record for the single largest financial purchase by a private investor in American history...doubling the previous record trade.

The speculator placed a bet that the next mortgage rate change announcement would be that the Fed would not make any change to the prime interest rate whatsoever. Each 1/100 of a percentage point change would result in an instant 8 million dollar loss for the speculator.

Mushbrain has been twisting arms at the Federal Reserve and the consensus was that he was going to be successful at coercing the Fed into lowering rates for the Congressional midterms.

Someone with balls of brass is betting against Orange Hitler in a major way.

give up on the hitler shit already will you? stop bring one of those retards

 

[MajorRewrite]

stop bring one of those retards

Please confine your illiterate gibberish to your own oryginalny alt’s racist threads. Thanks.

 

[Lazaran]

When will Trump’s “government by chaos, criminality, corruption, and coercion” fully destroy the U.S. (and world) economy???



The markets seem to be rattled…again…

All three major indexes down bigly…



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[PersonalFavors]

When will Trump’s “government by chaos, criminality, corruption, and coercion” fully destroy the U.S. (and world) economy???



The markets seem to be rattled…again…

All three major indexes down bigly…



We. Told. Them. So.

Its got nothing to do with Trump.
IBM potentially losing Cobol to AI is an over reaction. More there is 20+ inches of snow dumping on the city.
Panic over this is just donating your earnings to the ether.
Claiming Trump is causing negative effects is ludicrous. We are still recovering from biden yellen powell's "inflation is only transitory", buy artificially cheap treasury's and print money because the believe it is free strategy.
Trump is leading us back to stability and prosperity.
I will concede the market is over priced. But this is not the adjustment. Remember the last internet bubble when you hero Gore invented the internet? Keep your eye on it.

 

[Lazaran]

Its got nothing to do with Trump.
IBM potentially losing Cobol to AI is an over reaction. More there is 20+ inches of snow dumping on the city.
Panic over this is just donating your earnings to the ether.
Claiming Trump is causing negative effects is ludicrous. We are still recovering from biden yellen powell's "inflation is only transitory", buy artificially cheap treasury's and print money because the believe it is free strategy.
Trump is leading us back to stability and prosperity.

Denial.

I will concede the market is over priced. But this is not the adjustment. Remember the last internet bubble when you hero Gore invented the internet? Keep your eye on it.

Projection.



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[PersonalFavors]

Denial.







Projection.



We. Told. Them. So.

Your posts are so boring. Same shit every time. Do you have anything else? Even liberal talking points might be more entertaining

 

[Lazaran]

Your posts are so boring. Same shit every time. Do you have anything else? Even liberal talking points might be more entertaining

I prefer highlighting the truth (“liberal talking points” are orders of magnitude more truthful than "conservative" talking points), and slapping MAGAts down when they engage in denial and projection.

Hope that ^ helps.



PersonalFailures



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[PersonalFavors]

I prefer highlighting the truth (“liberal talking points” are orders of magnitude more truthful than "conservative" talking points), and slapping MAGAts down when they engage in denial and projection.

Hope that ^ helps.



PersonalFailures



We. Told. Them. So.

Then highlight some truth.
You keep saying we told them so and you have said nothing.

 

[Lazaran]

Then highlight some truth.
You keep saying we told them so and you have said nothing.

“You can lead a MAGAt to truth, but you can’t make them think”…



There are endless examples of the truth (Trump’s policies being directly responsible for economic damage), but MAGAts deny or ignore those examples.



PersonalFialures



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[PersonalFavors]

“You can lead a MAGAt to truth, but you can’t make them think”…



There are endless examples of the truth (Trump’s policies being directly responsible for economic damage), but MAGAts deny or ignore those examples.



PersonalFialures



We. Told. Them. So.

Yet all you do is complain about the damage done by biden's "team". The recovery seems slow even though inflation is down, the prices imposed by the idiots will only come down with recession. That is not the goal or where we are.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Yet all you do is complain about the damage done by biden's "team". The recovery seems slow even though inflation is down, the prices imposed by the idiots will only come down with recession. That is not the goal or where we are.

A reminder that 2024’s economic results were better than 2025’s in every way …

Unemployment rate
2024: 4.1%
2025: 4.4%

Jobs created:
2024: 2,200,000
2025: 181,000

Manufacturing employment (total, in December):
2024: 12,760,000
2025: 12,692,000

Value of the dollar (DXY index):
2024: up 7%
2025: down 9%

S&P 500:
2024: up 23%
2025: up 16%

Groceries Cost:
2024: up 1.7%
2025: up 2.4%

Core PCE Inflation Rate:
2024: 2.8%
2025: 3.0%

Trade Balance
2024 trade deficit: $903.5 billion
2025 trade deficit: $901.5 billion (0.22% decrease)

GDP Growth
2024: 2.8%
2025: 2.2%

 

[PersonalFavors]

A reminder that 2024’s economic results were better than 2025’s in every way …

Unemployment rate
2024: 4.1%
2025: 4.4%

Jobs created:
2024: 2,200,000
2025: 181,000

Manufacturing employment (total, in December):
2024: 12,760,000
2025: 12,692,000

Value of the dollar (DXY index):
2024: up 7%
2025: down 9%

S&P 500:
2024: up 23%
2025: up 16%

Groceries Cost:
2024: up 1.7%
2025: up 2.4%

Core PCE Inflation Rate:
2024: 2.8%
2025: 3.0%

Trade Balance
2024 trade deficit: $903.5 billion
2025 trade deficit: $901.5 billion (0.22% decrease)

GDP Growth
2024: 2.8%
2025: 2.2%

Awesome. We are still better off now that we were then.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Awesome. We are still better off now that we were then.

Pretense is all the MAGA sheep have.

Failure is success! War is peace! Ignorance is strength!

 

[PersonalFavors]

Pretense is all the MAGA sheep have.

Failure is success! War is peace! Ignorance is strength!

None of you are willing to fathom how much damage was done with the liberal spending spree's, open borders and squandering of Pentagon resources.

 

[MajorRewrite]

None of you are willing to fathom how much damage was done with the liberal spending spree's, open borders and squandering of Pentagon resources.

If you ever have something factual to share about the economy, please do.

 

[ChloeTzang]

The Trump Administratin is Killing the US Defence Industry....

"We're going to invade Canada and Greenland but don't produce your own weapons, buy ours, because otherwise you'll harm NATO". The Trimp Administration has hit a previously unknown level of stupidity.

 

[MajorRewrite]

'25 my stock picks gained more than 60k and my 401k expanded more than that.

The stock markets grew more in 2024 than in 2025.

S&P 500
2024: up 23%
2025: up 16%

 

[ChloeTzang]

Trump's Tariff Madness is Resulting in his "Deals" Being Cancelled