The Economy

[Lazaran]

Summary of 2025 economy vs 2024 economy: (updated with after-tax income)

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%

After-Tax Personal Income Growth, inflation adjusted
2024: 2.2%
2025: 0.9%

Bump.



WE. TOLD. THEM. SO.

 

[Rotadom]

Donald the Trump gained 2024 votes in areas where inflation was worse, study finds

The institute calculates the cost of living across seven distinct spending categories. These categories include housing, food, transportation, healthcare, other necessities, childcare, and taxes. Flavin focused his analysis on the estimated costs for a household consisting of two adults and two children.

He compared the estimated local costs in 2023 to the estimated costs in 2024. By finding the difference between these two years, he created a working measure of county-level inflation. He calculated the percentage point change for each of the seven categories, alongside a measure of the total overall cost increase.

A percentage point is the simple numerical difference between two percentages. For example, moving from four percent to five percent is an increase of one percentage point. Flavin used these calculations to determine exactly how much prices rose in different parts of the country right before the election.

 

[bijedi]

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

While there was a slight decrease in the overall goods and services trade deficit, it wasn't helped by tariffs.

The overall trade deficit in goods, the area most impacted by tariffs, actually increased from $1.21T to $1.24T.

This was offset by an increase in the services surplus from $295B to $339.5B.

 

[MajorRewrite]

America financially relies on its allies, despite MAGA rhetoric. They buy our national debt while our non-allies are net sellers of our debt.

Countries that are aligned with Washington bought $463.9 billion of Treasuries in 2025, the biggest annual net purchase since at least 2016, according to Bloomberg’s analysis of US Treasury data. By contrast, the figures showed that countries least united with the US offloaded $125.24 billion of American debt last year, the most in six years.

“Antagonizing friend and foe is not a great idea for a net debtor nation – especially one with high deficits that need to be funded with foreign capital,” said Kathy Jones, chief fixed-income strategist at Charles Schwab.

 

[SebastianHolt]

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

I'm an alt .... does this mean we can have a party?

 

[SebastianHolt]

Trump has gained $4 billion since taking office

what about the Cunt pelosi

 

[ll74]

what about the Cunt pelosi

She hasn't gained $4 billion in one year.

 

[SebastianHolt]

So Coffee led all grocery products in price increases last year with a 17% hike across the board, all companies raised their prices in response to President Donald J. Mushbrain's petty and arbitrary tariffs.

I saw Secretary of Commerce Nutlick on Fox Business last spring blithely dismissing the tariff on coffee, saying "we can just start growing it here!" The normally fawning Fox Business anchor replied incredulously "Sir? You DO realize that coffee only grows in tropical climates between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, and the entire United States is located too far north in the temperate zone for coffee to grow....

Nutlick smiled and just shrugged. He didn't give a shit, he'd delivered the "feel good" talking point. Mission accomplished.

And now it's documented that coffee-drinking Americans are paying for Trump's seat-of-the-pants idiosyncratic tariffs.

• Fuck Trump
• Fuck Nutlick
• Fuck MAGA
• Fuck Anyone Who Voted For Trump

I'm planning on voting for Trump ... again! Vote blue and stay poor

 

[SebastianHolt]

She hasn't gained $4 billion in one year.

did she die yet?

 

[SebastianHolt]

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

what deals?

 

[SebastianHolt]

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



And GDP growth for 2025 was lower than 2024.

if it wasn't for the media and their war on Trump, my gut says the economy would be doing better. People are CLEARLY watching their spending, and I see it every day.

for example, one neighbor rents their house for $10k a week, but it hasn't rented in a year
another example, another neighbor rents out their smaller home for < $2k a week, and they are booked solid

 

[ll74]

did she die yet?

What?

 

[SebastianHolt]

What?

Pelosi, that cunt needs to die off

 

[MajorRewrite]

SebastianHolt/oryginalny obviously needs another reminder (his mental disability includes short term memory loss) …

Summary of 2025 economy vs 2024 economy:

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%

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%

After-Tax Personal Income Growth, inflation adjusted
2024: 2.2%
2025: 0.9%

 

[PersonalFavors]

if it wasn't for the media and their war on Trump, my gut says the economy would be doing better. People are CLEARLY watching their spending, and I see it every day.

for example, one neighbor rents their house for $10k a week, but it hasn't rented in a year
another example, another neighbor rents out their smaller home for < $2k a week, and they are booked solid

The media and democrats are still using inflation and high costs interchangeably.
The high prices we have now are the result of biden's yellen's powell's inflation and congress spending Trillions of dollars we did not have.
Inflation is down.
Prices only come down with deflation. Deflation is an uncontrolled recession none of us can afford. Come up with some ideas instead of lying about Trump!

 

[SebastianHolt]

SebastianHolt/oryginalny obviously needs another reminder (his mental disability includes short term memory loss) …

Summary of 2025 economy vs 2024 economy:

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%

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%

After-Tax Personal Income Growth, inflation adjusted
2024: 2.2%
2025: 0.9%

who is oryginalny ?

 

[MajorRewrite]

The media and democrats are still using inflation and high costs interchangeably.
The high prices we have now are the result of biden's yellen's powell's inflation and congress spending Trillions of dollars we did not have.
Inflation is down.
Prices only come down with deflation. Deflation is an uncontrolled recession none of us can afford. Come up with some ideas instead of lying about Trump!

I really wish people who struggle with reality would stop ranting nonsense in this thread.

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

The rate of inflation is up. We’re sorry that this hurts your feelings, but it’s a simple fact.

 

[SebastianHolt]

The media and democrats are still using inflation and high costs interchangeably.
The high prices we have now are the result of biden's yellen's powell's inflation and congress spending Trillions of dollars we did not have.
Inflation is down.
Prices only come down with deflation. Deflation is an uncontrolled recession none of us can afford. Come up with some ideas instead of lying about Trump!

can't afford to waste time thinking about Trump. I'm trying to acquire two more assets. The asking price for these was reduced to a point where the numbers work, which will help my portfolio

 

[ll74]

Pelosi, that cunt needs to die off

Ok.
So you're just throwing out grievances.

Got it.

 

[SebastianHolt]

SebastianHolt/oryginalny obviously needs another reminder (his mental disability includes short term memory loss) …

Summary of 2025 economy vs 2024 economy:

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%

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%

After-Tax Personal Income Growth, inflation adjusted
2024: 2.2%
2025: 0.9%

update this report with the biden years

 

[SebastianHolt]

Ok.
So you're just throwing out grievances.

Got it.

She is a evil woman. God will fix her

 

[RobDownSouth]

who is oryginalny ?

Busybody.
The board's original (and most prolific) shitposter.
Banned over 80 times.
Over one million posts since 1999.

 

[MajorRewrite]

update this report with the biden years

JFC. Biden was president in 2024. The numbers are right there.

Your mental disability seems to be getting worse all the time. Sad.

 

[SebastianHolt]

JFC. Biden was president in 2024. The numbers are right there.

Your mental disability seems to be get worse all the time. Sad.

it would be interesting to see a graph of Trump, biden, Trump all those years

 

[ll74]

She is a evil woman. God will fix her

Which god?