Yesterday, in what can only be described as a delusional post to Truth Social, Trump pumped his imaginary Golden Age of America with the following message: “Our Nation is staging one of the greatest and fastest comebacks in history. In just four short months, we are respected again, respected like never before, and just wait, […]
Month: May 2025
House passes ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ – inequality in America to increase
In the early morning of May 22, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the Trump Administration’s so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ moving the country one step closer to gutting core social programs in favor of tax cuts that benefit higher-income households. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office stated that it “estimates that in general, resources would decrease […]
Trump’s policies cause key U.S. economic indicators to plunge in April
In what has marked the entirety of the second Trump Administration, the Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) plunged sharply again in April. The LEI for the US fell sharply by 1.0% in April 2025 to 99.4 (2016 = 100), following a 0.8% decline in March. The LEI is a predictive tool that anticipates—or “leads”—turning […]
Big ‘Beautiful’ Bill – leaves Americans with Big Ugly Policy
On Saturday, the White House released its ‘fact’ sheet on how the President’s touted ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will rid the country of the immigrants that Trump so clearly loathes. Entitled “The One Big Beautiful Bill Will Crack Down On Illegal Immigration,” the fact sheet lays out – in vague partisan statements – the plan to […]
Consumer sentiment continues to nosedive with Trump’s economic policies
In continued disdain for Trump’s economic policies and their subsequent upheaval, American consumers remain wary of what is to come. The median forecast for May consumer confidence was 53.5, representing a slight increase from the April 2025 sentiment number of 52.20. However, consumer confidence plunged to an almost record low of just 50.80 points in […]
Trump marks National Women’s Health Week by playing narrow-minded politics
To mark National Women’s Health Week 2025, which runs from May 11 to 17, 2025, the White House released a statement from the President on May 12 that was nothing more than a narrow-minded, partisan release. Rather than focusing on actual and vital women’s health issues, such as safe, affordable, and unbiased access to basic […]
Housing – and life – continues to get more expensive for American families
Daily household costs continue to increase for American families as shown in today’s Consumer Price Index data release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. While headline CPI came in at an increase of 0.2 percent, housing costs – including energy costs – increased at an even higher rate of inflation. Given that the average […]
Trump turns to bribery to further push cultural repatriation plan
Building on the Administration’s initial push on April 13 to re-establish a 1930s-era cultural repatriation campaign (see: Cultural Repatriation Campaign 2.0) to remove migrants from America, on May 9, the President went one step further, signing a proclamation establishing ‘Project Homecoming’ to encourage illegal aliens to depart the United States voluntarily. While ‘Project Homecoming’ may […]
Unproductive – U.S. sees first quarter productivity fall under Trump Administration
Yesterday brought more concerning news on the state of the American economy. Nonfarm business sector labor productivity decreased 0.8 percent in the first quarter of 2025, under the Trump Administration. The first time in three years that the US has seen a decline. Coming out of the pandemic, worker productivity and the steady increases that […]
Trump’s tariffs spur unprecedented stockpiling of foreign goods
The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced on Tuesday that Americans went on a no-holds-barred foreign goods shopping spree like no other. The goods and services trade deficit was an astounding $140.5 billion in March, with total imports of $419.0 billion! In total, the trade deficit increased by $17.3 billion from February. […]