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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOkidoki. Here is the state of the US economy right before Biden hands over to Trump:
US unemployment rate (as of December 2024) = 4.1%
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
US median income (2024) = $59,228
https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/smart-money/average-salary-in-us
US median home sales price (2024) = $420,400 = 7.1 annual incomes (before taxes)
https://www.fool.com/money/research/average-house-price-state/?furi=%2Fbanks%2F<xt=Read+full+review+of+Scoro<yp=txt&luri=%2Fresearch%2F&ord=3
price of eggs (as of December 2024) = $4.15 per dozen Grade A large eggs
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/why-are-eggs-so-expensive
price of energy (as of December 2024) = $0.176 per kWh
https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices_selectedareas_table.htm
annual inflation (as of December 2024) = 2.9%
https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm

bucolic_frolic
(49,267 posts)Trump eggs should be labeled with similar attribution.
Roy Rolling
(7,271 posts)
bucolic_frolic
(49,267 posts)Harris campaign was fighting demons.
"Two! Three! Four! We want four more!"
Jit423
(1,054 posts)It's still Biden's economy until tomorrow. I would start with where things are before noon today because there were some price drops this past week.
Think. Again.
(21,969 posts)This should be posted everywhere so anyone can easily see the damage trump will be doing in real time.
TheRickles
(2,636 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,386 posts)Great point. Paul Krugman warned about that in his final NYT column.
Lonestarblue
(12,432 posts)DENVERPOPS
(11,425 posts)why he is exclusively appointing "ass lickers" that will regurgitate anything and everything Trump directs them to do.............
Look at what DeSantis did with reporting Covid Deaths in Florida, along with many other RED states like Texas, etc etc
3catwoman3
(26,373 posts)...and statistics" comes to mind.
lark
(24,694 posts)Worst asshole in the world and he will be our president as of tomorrow. I'm freaking sick and so disappointed and worried!
livetohike
(23,330 posts)
A HERETIC I AM
(24,747 posts)Because of the bird flu and chicken movement and processing being shut down. I imagine that applies to egg operations as well.
CousinIT
(11,133 posts)Thank you.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,386 posts)The coming unfunded tax cuts for the wealthy will send that one soaring.
Silent Type
(8,704 posts)doesn't really make much difference in the scheme of things.
lastlib
(25,542 posts)I will throw a heart attack if The Felon doesn't send it through the roof.
RainCaster
(12,345 posts)I wonder what it will rise to under Hair Fuhrer...
Exp
(203 posts)peggysue2
(11,699 posts)Because the excuses will fly and the coming Administration will attempt to flush the past and its significance down a memory hole.
Bookmark, save and be ready with facts.
BoRaGard
(4,520 posts)
petronius
(26,678 posts)Just to add another one that often comes up...
NameAlreadyTaken
(1,982 posts)That was all that mattered on November 5th.
aggiesal
(9,854 posts)is a better economy.
Unfortunately, this might happen a lot.
PennRalphie
(404 posts)Ive been saying this for months. Everywhere you go, everything is full. Restaurants, concerts, airplanes, cruise ships, hotels, malls. Everyone has money thanks to Biden/Harris and theyre spending it. But the focus was on a dozen eggs. People spending thousands to see a concert, but the shiny object was 6.00 eggs.
calimary
(85,458 posts)Im betting things will fall apart as the Orange One gets focused on the care and feeding of his ego.
isitreal
(77 posts)At kings Soopers a dozen of thier cheapest eggs are 7.5 right now. Our chickens have been hit hard by bird flue.
Just wait we are a mutation or 2 away from this becoming infectious to humans. Moderna was just given $15OM? to developers a vaccine.. just in case.. I say about time when you look at what is going on with the dairy herds and the immigrant workers doing the close contact to take care of them. Just what we need with the orange guy and the anti vaccine lawyer that thinks he is a medical expert in vaccines.
ReRe
(11,389 posts)swong19104
(375 posts)that we have no assurance that the numbers going forward will have any validity. Once Trump puts political appointees in place, these numbers will be whatever they want them to be.
liberalla
(10,357 posts)Kick
moondust
(20,795 posts)All the little toadies will fudge and invent the numbers to serve him. OR ELSE!
cannabis_flower
(3,868 posts)BlueSpot
(1,021 posts)Could be interesting. Or, by four years from now, could be painfully obvious.
SheltieLover
(64,826 posts)Just a few days ago.
Baron2024
(1,426 posts)I am going to put this info in my files and watch what changes during this moronic clown's Presidency. I expect trouble.
flying rabbit
(4,821 posts)