A Recession on the Way?

GDP grew in the last quarter.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gdp-report-economy-growth-third-quarter-2025/

Consumer price index increased over the fall.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf

OK, you know what the Consumer Price Index is, right?

Yeah. Do you think a 0.2 increase is significant considering according to the left the economy was on the brink of ruin and the tariffs were going to ruin the economy.

Ought we be trusting of "government data" seeing as Trump fired the last guys who reported bad news?

Do you know for a fact that was the reason he got fired or is this assuming motives?

I'm really not sure you understand what the CPI is. If you did, you probably would not be trumpeting "the CPI increased!" the way you are.

https://bsky.app/profile/justinwolfers.bsky.social/post/3maxtxxkq2l2p

There are some similarities to 2005 when Bush had a pretty decent economy and his party got routed in the 2006 election. But this time around the K shape of the economy is even more pronounced. Good luck to them.

https://x.com/mtkonczal/status/2009350629215621263?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Post something meaningful. Tweets aren't it

I'd argue that the proportion of income that goes to actual working people hitting an all-time low is pretty meaningful.

No it means America is great again. We're back baby!

So who the hell is getting these jobs, if we're deporting people as fast as we can?

https://x.com/i/status/2010510130970849338

Fairly striking statement from Powell. At last, someone grows a backbone.

The wall Trump has backed him up against is doing a lot of the "spine" work.

I'm sure Trump hopes said wall is the firing squad backstop.

https://www.levernews.com/the-federal-reserves-420-billion-wall-street-bailout/

Meanwhile in China

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/...e_code=1.EVA.WQye.R_Hru9LTSOHY&smid=url-share

^Thats because China didnt have to study economic theory in detail to understand what Cheech was doing would afford them the chance to byepass US ussues, diversifying & taking advantage of foreign markets who were being targeted by the professors policies!

This is all going to bite American consumers in the ass! Of course it will probably be Bidens fault!

Hey @Steal Your Face this is good, right?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/real-estate/article-15464081/banks-seize-homes-foreclosures.html

Also, when your recommendation to the rising costs of food is "well, have you tried eating LESS?" I don't really think you can say the economy is great for the average American:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...cken-broccoli-meal_n_696862cbe4b00edae2a3852a

Holy fucking shit.
And they're trying to say the economy is great?!?

Related - massive amounts of caviar being served at Mar a Lago Last night:

https://x.com/WUTangKids/status/2011840913035661408?s=20

$3 gets you half a fish egg

It makes the US claims of improving the lives of Greenlanders especially laughable.

@Steal Your Face before dinner: "We thank you for this wonderful and delectable bounty of food Lord Trump"

Is it good to allow foreign companies and investment groups to own property here?

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/sell-america-trade-dollar-treasury-gold-us-trump-greenland.html

Having read what companies like Blackrock are doing when it comes to residential real estate, no I don't think it's good

Foreign companies and investment groups generally aren't the ones missing their mortgage payments though so I'm not sure why you ask