UMich consumer sentiment (current conditions) at 50.4 is a new all-time low -- going back to data from the 1970s.


ouch

CPI Ground Beef, record high $6.54/lb

+16.2% YoY

deplorable

Here's the dadta they used.

Price of gasoline, new cars and used cars. LOL

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Millions of new jobs for US workers.

Decrease in jobs for Foreign workers

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t07.htm

just outstanding work. Imagine if we can do this for another 7 years.

Oh hi Karoline!

Nobody trusts a dot gov website. The White House brought that on themselves.

+1 When you have a tendency to fire people who publish information that you don't like, no one trusts you. It's like covid: if you don't report the numbers, then covid doesn't seem all that bad.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you leave out all the data points, inflation looks great. What a joke.

https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/US-CPI-12-18-2025-screenshot-summary.png

The latest inflation reports are built on only 3 data points! It’s missing many categories altogether including electricity and shelter.

MAGA is so completely illiterate and innumerate that they don’t know the difference.

It won't matter at the ballot box. The trends of 2025 will continue. Many people who won't want to vote for a Dem won't bother to vote for a GOP candidate. They'll be so pissed at the state of their finances that they just won't vote at all.

And plenty WILL vote for change of any sort. People vote with their feelings.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you leave out all the data points, inflation looks great. What a joke.

https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/US-CPI-12-18-2025-screenshot-summary.png

The latest inflation reports are built on only 3 data points! It’s missing many categories altogether including electricity and shelter.

MAGA is so completely illiterate and innumerate that they don’t know the difference.

It alsoLeaves out food from
Home, food away from home, apparel. Medical services etc.

Gasoline is included and we know it’s down. In other words, in a report that maga is cheering, there are 3 data points. One of those is gasoline which we know is down.

So gas is bringing it down because all these other data points are zero but inflation still
Remains above target inflation.

Celebrate all you want MAGA but the emperor has no clothes here.

Anonymous wrote:If you leave out all the data points, inflation looks great. What a joke.

https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/US-CPI-12-18-2025-screenshot-summary.png

The latest inflation reports are built on only 3 data points! It’s missing many categories altogether including electricity and shelter.

MAGA is so completely illiterate and innumerate that they don’t know the difference.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Socialism

If you leave out all the data points, inflation looks great. What a joke.

https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/US-CPI-12-18-2025-screenshot-summary.png

I expected they would start fudging the numbers at some point. I just thought they’d be more subtle about it.

Anonymous wrote:RIP government data

+1 This is “if we stopped testing there wouldn’t be any cases” for the economy.