Media and Leftists conclusion: Trump created an affordability crisis

Some fun facts:

Opinion/By T.O. Goodwin

The American economy under Trump, as it stands at the end of 2025, is defined less by its performance than by the growing inability to measure it. The institutions that normally anchor public understanding—the Bureau of Labor Statistics, its survey divisions, and the statistical infrastructure that produces inflation, employment, and wage data—have been weakened by leadership disruptions, shutdown interruptions, and funding gaps. The result is an economy that continues to move, but without the instruments that allow the public to know where it is going. The canceled October inflation report, the missing employment survey, and the partial, delayed releases that followed are not technical footnotes. They represent a failure of economic transparency at the precise moment when households are facing rising costs and the government is insisting on stability it can no longer document.

Within that informational vacuum, several pressures are visible even without full data. Tariffs imposed across broad consumer categories are raising the cost of everyday goods—food, appliances, vehicles, clothing, construction materials—while the administration continues to add fiscal burdens through increased military spending. None of these cost pressures are captured in a continuous inflation series because the October data gap breaks the statistical sequence. But the absence of measurement does not reduce the burden on families who experience higher grocery bills, volatile fuel prices, and sustained housing pressures. Without clear CPI data, these structural cost increases do not register in the official narrative, but they remain fully present in household budgets.

The labor market shows similar fractures. The last reliable numbers—those available before the shutdown froze survey operations—indicated rising unemployment, slower job creation, and wages that were no longer outrunning the cost of living. With October and November labor data missing, the country does not know whether the slowdown has deepened or stabilized. This uncertainty is not abstract. It affects business confidence, hiring plans, wage negotiations, and the financial decisions of tens of millions of workers. A functioning jobs report is not just a statistical instrument; it is the central gauge households use to judge the health of the labor market they depend on.

In structural terms, the 2025 economy is marked by a growing contradiction. The administration asserts strength, stability, and control, while the institutional machinery required to verify those claims has been weakened or halted. The firing of the BLS commissioner in August, the shutdown in October, and the resulting collapse in data collection leave the public with political assurances but no empirical basis to evaluate them. In a modern economy, transparency is a form of stability. When the measurement systems are disrupted, the economy becomes harder to navigate, harder to plan for, and harder for ordinary people to trust. The absence of credible data is itself an economic condition.

Taken together, these patterns define the Trump economy as one operating under rising costs, weakening labor signals, and a compromised statistical framework. The underlying pressures—tariffs, energy volatility, housing constraints, military expansion—continue to move through the system whether or not they can be measured. What has changed is the public’s capacity to see the economy clearly. That loss of visibility is not a technical issue. It is a structural one, and it now shapes the economic experience of the country as much as any policy shift or market trend.

Bottom line Trump’s economy right now is a system running blind: prices are rising, jobs are softening, and the government has damaged the very tools needed to measure what’s happening. The public is being asked to trust stability in an economy that can no longer be fully seen.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Yea, sure. That's why he waited to do something until he'd borrowed and wasted another $3 trillion on Leftist bullshit before inflation shot up through the rafters hum?
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The trillions added under Biden were partly the result of the pandemic, because he inherited a huge deficit and emergency spending programs from the prior Trump administration. Some of that money was already committed before he took office, and more had to be spent to prevent a deeper economic collapse. But it is also true that Biden added several trillion more during his own term through his policies and ongoing federal programs.

By contrast, in Trump’s current term, the level of new debt and spending has already surpassed what Biden added. This increase has happened quickly and has reached several trillion dollars in just the first year. The details involve complex budget math, but the broad picture is straightforward: Trump has now added more new debt in one year than Biden added across multiple years.
 
T.O. Goodwin said:
Some fun facts:

Opinion/By T.O. Goodwin

The American economy under Trump, as it stands at the end of 2025, is defined less by its performance than by the growing inability to measure it. The institutions that normally anchor public understanding—the Bureau of Labor Statistics, its survey divisions, and the statistical infrastructure that produces inflation, employment, and wage data—have been weakened by leadership disruptions, shutdown interruptions, and funding gaps. The result is an economy that continues to move, but without the instruments that allow the public to know where it is going. The canceled October inflation report, the missing employment survey, and the partial, delayed releases that followed are not technical footnotes. They represent a failure of economic transparency at the precise moment when households are facing rising costs and the government is insisting on stability it can no longer document.

Within that informational vacuum, several pressures are visible even without full data. Tariffs imposed across broad consumer categories are raising the cost of everyday goods—food, appliances, vehicles, clothing, construction materials—while the administration continues to add fiscal burdens through increased military spending. None of these cost pressures are captured in a continuous inflation series because the October data gap breaks the statistical sequence. But the absence of measurement does not reduce the burden on families who experience higher grocery bills, volatile fuel prices, and sustained housing pressures. Without clear CPI data, these structural cost increases do not register in the official narrative, but they remain fully present in household budgets.

The labor market shows similar fractures. The last reliable numbers—those available before the shutdown froze survey operations—indicated rising unemployment, slower job creation, and wages that were no longer outrunning the cost of living. With October and November labor data missing, the country does not know whether the slowdown has deepened or stabilized. This uncertainty is not abstract. It affects business confidence, hiring plans, wage negotiations, and the financial decisions of tens of millions of workers. A functioning jobs report is not just a statistical instrument; it is the central gauge households use to judge the health of the labor market they depend on.

In structural terms, the 2025 economy is marked by a growing contradiction. The administration asserts strength, stability, and control, while the institutional machinery required to verify those claims has been weakened or halted. The firing of the BLS commissioner in August, the shutdown in October, and the resulting collapse in data collection leave the public with political assurances but no empirical basis to evaluate them. In a modern economy, transparency is a form of stability. When the measurement systems are disrupted, the economy becomes harder to navigate, harder to plan for, and harder for ordinary people to trust. The absence of credible data is itself an economic condition.

Taken together, these patterns define the Trump economy as one operating under rising costs, weakening labor signals, and a compromised statistical framework. The underlying pressures—tariffs, energy volatility, housing constraints, military expansion—continue to move through the system whether or not they can be measured. What has changed is the public’s capacity to see the economy clearly. That loss of visibility is not a technical issue. It is a structural one, and it now shapes the economic experience of the country as much as any policy shift or market trend.

Bottom line Trump’s economy right now is a system running blind: prices are rising, jobs are softening, and the government has damaged the very tools needed to measure what’s happening. The public is being asked to trust stability in an economy that can no longer be fully seen.
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Crepitus said:
A world wide pandemic.
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Nine percent inflation would be severe, because it erodes purchasing power faster than wages can adjust, forces families to cut back on essentials, pushes businesses into constant price increases, and disrupts credit and savings; at that level the Federal Reserve is almost guaranteed to raise interest rates hard enough to slow the economy into recession, since tightening is the only way to break the inflation cycle, and while a depression remains unlikely without a broader collapse, the recession risk becomes immediate and structural once inflation is allowed to reach nine percent. YUK!
 
T.O. Goodwin said:
Nine percent inflation would be severe, because it erodes purchasing power faster than wages can adjust, forces families to cut back on essentials, pushes businesses into constant price increases, and disrupts credit and savings; at that level the Federal Reserve is almost guaranteed to raise interest rates hard enough to slow the economy into recession, since tightening is the only way to break the inflation cycle, and while a depression remains unlikely without a broader collapse, the recession risk becomes immediate and structural once inflation is allowed to reach nine percent. YUK!
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It was severe, But here's a thing most folks overlook:

The Biden administration kept our inflation rate lower than most other countries.
 
Crepitus said:
It was severe, But here's a thing most folks overlook:

The Biden administration kept our inflation rate lower than most other countries.
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When Biden assumed office (January 2021), inflation was modest (around 1.4% at that moment) according to official unemployment / CPI data. But inflation rose sharply during his presidency — peaking at about 9.1% (year-over-year) in June 2022.

It reached nine percent because global supply chains were still broken, consumer demand surged faster than production, shipping costs spiked, the Russia–Ukraine war pushed energy and food prices sharply higher, the labor market tightened and raised service costs, and the Federal Reserve kept interest rates too low for too long while those pressures built.

That being said before anyone says so see Trump had a lower rate take this into consideration that when Biden took office in January 2021, the measured economy was still operating under the suppressed demand conditions created by the COVID-19 shock. Large segments of the service economy had not reopened, travel was low, millions of people were still out of the labor force, and consumer spending patterns had not normalized. Supply chains were strained but not yet fully congested, and federal relief spending had already been authorized under the previous administration, meaning much of the fiscal expansion that would later fuel demand had not yet translated into price pressures. Energy prices were also depressed because global mobility had collapsed during 2020, holding down fuel and transportation costs. In this environment, the economy remained in a partial shutdown equilibrium, which kept overall inflation readings unusually low.

In conclusion, the low 1.4 percent inflation rate in early 2021 reflected a country still in crisis rather than a record of economic strength. The United States had already lost more than 400,000 lives to COVID-19 by the time of the inauguration, tens of millions had endured job loss or severe disruption, major sectors remained shuttered, and national mobility was far from normal. Prices stayed subdued because the economy itself was subdued; demand was weak, activity was constrained, and the nation was still absorbing a profound human and economic shock.
 
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T.O. Goodwin said:
Just check the facts in my opinion piece for yourself is all I ask. Look up the statements I made and see if I am lying or telling the truth is all I ask. If I am lying, then I will stand corrected. However, if you don't check the facts that I say are reality then it is moot we even discuss it.
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There are none. You simply foisted your opinion backing it with vague generalities.
 
Crepitus said:
It was severe, But here's a thing most folks overlook:

The Biden administration kept our inflation rate lower than most other countries.
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Whataboutism. Doesn't matter what "other countries" did or didn't do unless you can demonstrate why those differences happened and compare them in a meaningful way to what the US did.
 
I have a question: who actually received and cashed the federal stimulus checks? Across the pandemic period, Americans received three rounds of payments. The first two rounds were issued in 2020 under President Trump, and the third round was issued in 2021 under President Biden. Anyone who met the eligibility requirements based on income, tax status, and dependent status received these funds automatically. Millions of people across the country—Trump supporters, Biden supporters, and everyone else—cashed them without distinction. The program made no political separation; every eligible American received a payment as part of the federal response to the nationwide shutdown. Hmm. Just sayin.
 
Nordberg said:
trump's inflation was over 3 percent last month. He has ended reporting, so we will not have monthly reports of his incompetence. He was told tariffs are inflationary. He does not care.
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You're a pathological liar - as all democrats are.

Reporting was interrupted due to the Schumer Shutdown. It will resume now that the pedocrats folded and released the hostages.
 
Nordberg said:
trump's inflation was over 3 percent last month. He has ended reporting, so we will not have monthly reports of his incompetence. He was told tariffs are inflationary. He does not care.
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What caused inflation with Biden during his potato puppet rule was the jacking up of fuel prices,
and for some reason that's not coming down ,and it absolutely naturally should.
Something is messed up there.
 
T.O. Goodwin said:
The trillions added under Biden were partly the result of the pandemic, because he inherited a huge deficit and emergency spending programs from the prior Trump administration. Some of that money was already committed before he took office, and more had to be spent to prevent a deeper economic collapse. But it is also true that Biden added several trillion more during his own term through his policies and ongoing federal programs.

By contrast, in Trump’s current term, the level of new debt and spending has already surpassed what Biden added. This increase has happened quickly and has reached several trillion dollars in just the first year. The details involve complex budget math, but the broad picture is straightforward: Trump has now added more new debt in one year than Biden added across multiple years.
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You can't blame the disaster that was Obama's Biden Junta on Trump.

Why can democrats never accept responsibility for their own actions?
 
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