"Only 31% of U.S. adults now approve of how Trump is handling the economy, the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds."
https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AP-NORC-December-2025-Topline-Trump.pdf

That’s a lot of words when just “stagflation” was literally coined for this.

EU economy: growing
China economy: growing

US economy: tanking

Trump is a winner.

both

Anonymous wrote:They really are just trying to convince everyone that the economy is great.

OMG! Delusion or deception.

grading on a steep curve, I see

They really are just trying to convince everyone that the economy is great.

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Anonymous wrote:No jobs report today, the first Friday of the month?

It will be released on December 16, after the federal reserves meet to vote on cutting interest rates. The December report will combine both October and November job numbers.

Same goes for the PPI report. I’m sure that is full of good news too.

The numbers must be abysmal. They are trying to figure out a way to reinvent the numbers. Who can trust the numbers, regardless what they finally post.

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Anonymous wrote:No jobs report today, the first Friday of the month?

It will be released on December 16, after the federal reserves meet to vote on cutting interest rates. The December report will combine both October and November job numbers.

Same goes for the PPI report. I’m sure that is full of good news too.

Real wages have risen 0.3 percent in the first three quarters of the Trump presidency. They went up by 1.7% in the last year of the Biden administration.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t01.htm

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To investors and financiers who rely on leverage, lowering interest rates is fantastic. But in order to do this without stoking inflation too much, you need a lot of job losses to weaken demand.

My prediction by next fall’s midterms:
4.XX% mortgage for prime borrowers, negative job numbers every month, gas prices in the high $2s, skyrocketing electricity bills, solid stock market growth (keep intl exposure), gold up another 20-30%

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Long term bond yields going down means rate cuts and stock market gains.

For the 1%. Recession for the rest.

It's our current K shaped economy. The leg of the K going up is the rich getting richer. The leg of the K going down is the rest of America getting poorer.

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Long term bond yields going down means rate cuts and stock market gains.

For the 1%. Recession for the rest.