Hopium's Economic Charts

Here's a current set of charts we refer to our in day to day work.....

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Here’s our revised estimate of the total cost of Trump’s failed war to the world. It already rivals the cost of the global economic crisis of 2008-2010 and COVID; is now double what it was a few weeks ago; and is now equal to China’s entire annual domestic output (GDP)

Here’s the revised Cleveland Fed’s projection for this Friday’s Consumer Price Index inflation report - annualized inflation rate over 10%!!!!!!!

Gas prices:

More Charts And Data

Here’s a comparison of average monthly job growth before and the tariffs:

Here’s job growth under Trump:

The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow cast shows q2 GDP growth in a steep war-induced decline:

The OECD’s new projections has the American economy continuing to slow:

Trump is now on track to have the slowest GDP growth of any American leader in the last 80 years:

Trump’s policies - tax cuts, war, tariffs, mass deportation, higher inflation - are causing a significant and potentially dangerous erosion of our fiscal condition:

So none of that is any good. Where things are about to get very bad for Trump and the Rs is with inflation and rising interest and mortgage rates. Here is what we were seeing before the war and soaring energy, gas, and commodity prices. Inflation was way too high and rising:

Mortgage rates have started taking off: