$59.31753 trillion to be exact

 

Today's GDP report indicates Trump GDP since 2017 is undershooting post-war performance up to Reagan 3Q1984 by 25%

 GDP since Reagan 3Q1984 (41 years) through the Trump present moment has grown at a compound annual rate 35% lower than for 3Q1947-3Q1984 (37 years): 5.076% vs. 7.847%.

Trump GDP CAGR since 3Q2017 (8 years): 5.878% (25% lower than the post-war to 3Q1984).

$4.08425 trillion GDP after 41-years at a compound annual growth rate of 7.847% would be $90.41555 trillion in 3Q2025 instead of $31.09802 trillion, 2.90 times more.

That's why you feel poorer. 

Reagan didn't make America great again, and neither has Trump.

 

 

Core pce inflation averaged 1.61% year over year under Trump 1.0, but through eleven months of 2025 it averages 2.79%, 73% higher

This higher inflation level, measured on a year over year basis, has persisted for 19-months from April 2024. We're just going sideways, not coming down. 

Next we'll hear from Trump that this is the new normal and that higher inflation is good akshully.

No, the Fed started cutting in September 2024 in error, obviously, and Trump wants the Fed to cut some more.

Meanwhile Jeff Cox for CNBC is just phoning in the story: 

Fed’s main gauge shows inflation at 2.8% in November, edging further away from target

... The personal savings rate rose in November to 3.5%, down 0.2 percentage point from the prior month. ...

How does the personal saving rate rise when it's down 0.2, Jeff? 

Yes, the personal saving rate fell from 3.7% the prior month to 3.5% in November.

People are paying for higher prices at the expense of saving. 

 

The case for stock market manipulation in the case of the proposed tariff penalties over Greenland is very weak

The tariff idea was floated before lunch on Friday, Jan 16.

Stocks closed down just 4-points that day.

The scale of the subsequent market reaction was comparatively minor in the event, and Trump pulled the trigger reversing himself very quickly unlike in April 2025.

Trump wants stock market winners, the rich, on his side, because he's losing the rest of us.

 

Yet more gold and silver record highs this week in the strongest dollar environment in years: Gold to $4,887.82 per ​ounce on Wednesday, silver to $95.87 on Tuesday

 -- CNBC

But the media and the so-called experts prattle on about dollar weakness.

 

Trump can jerk everybody around about this and that, day in and day out, but he can't do anything about inflation

 Natural gas prices soar as cold snap blasts across the U.S.

Natural gas prices soar as Arctic cold to blast Upper Midwest and descend across U.S.

Trump always chickens out: Tariffs over Greenland canceled

SPX up 1.27%, long yields down 4 basis points, gold and silver cool off.

Same shit, different day.

 

House Speaker Mike Johnson, who claimed to be a constitutional law attorney in 2016, says the president has tariff authority under Article Two of the Constitution when Article One gives it to the Congress

 

So Witzig!

 

Trump tells room of German speakers 'you'd all be speaking German without us'

 

 

 

Man going the wrong way tells another man he's headed in the wrong direction

Trump tells world leaders: Europe is not heading in the right direction

Gold powers higher despite Trump's TACO on Greenland

 

Bond yields don't appear to believe Trump's disavowal of the use of force in Greenland

 

In October 2024 to The Detroit Economic Club Trump promised he'd cut our electricity bills in half by now lol

 

Spot gold hit a record high $4,765.93 today, spot silver a record $95.87

 -- CNBC

Ratio 1:49.71 

Net tons through the Suez Canal in 2025 came to 0.52 billion vs. 1.41 billion in 2022, down 63%

 Trump's 7-week Operation Rough Rider against the Houthis was a total, and expensive, failure, compounding Biden's.

The pirates and terrorists won in the Red Sea.

... The first month alone of Trump’s bombing campaign cost more than $1 billion in weapons and munitions. ... 

 

 

 

Yields give the finger to The Don for tariff threats over Greenland

 

Why do we celebrate so many Presbyterians actually committing it during the American Revolution?

Why do we celebrate Good Friday? 

Why Do So Many K-12 Educators Celebrate Violence?

Salena Zito, DC Examiner

 

 

Wow, Kamala Harris really is a next-level anti-semite IMAO

We have to say that IMAO stuff for legal reasons. 

Meanwhile, this is also a form of campaigning by Shapiro, don't forget that. 

Shapiro: Harris Staff Questioned If He Was Israeli Agent

Toluse Olorunnipa, Atlantic

 

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was already irritated by what he describes as “unnecessarily contentious” questions from the team vetting him to be Kamala Harris’s running mate when a senior aide made one final inquiry: “Have you ever been an agent of the Israeli government?” ...

After Harris and Shapiro sat down, in a dining room that had been cleared of most furniture other than two chairs and a table, there was little in the way of small talk or pleasantries. Each described the conversation as blunt, lacking the traditional warmth of two people trying to determine if a four-year partnership would work. Their discussion was especially tense when Harris asked Shapiro if he would apologize for some of his comments about protesters at the University of Pennsylvania who had built encampments to decry Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and, in some cases, intimidated Jewish students.

Shapiro wrote that he “flatly” told Harris that he would not. ...

More and more are saying that Trump is nuts

 

Mad King Ludwig says he's given peace a chance, but now it's time for something we're not going to really like

Trump ties his stance on Greenland to not getting Nobel Peace Prize, European officials say