You’re right, Peter, there are plenty of details in this report that are concerning. For example, retail jobs fell in December - during the Christmas-shopping season, when many stores make 90% of their profits for the year and frequently hire extra labor. That’s a bad sign!
And it’s not Trump’s fault. Here in Minneapolis, the city “leaders” (grrr) have enacted one ordinance after another that are detrimental to retail businesses. They’ve taken away parking spaces; mandated minimum-wages that retail cannot afford; implemented a paid “family leave” that retail truly can’t afford, and so on. The net result has been retail prices that have been required to rise in order to pay for all of these benefits, and then shoppers see that they can buy the same items online for a fraction of the retail price. What a surprise - the stores go out of business! This is the result of Woke, socialist policies spun up during the Biden years, NOT the fault of Trump!
Thank you once again, Peter, for your clear-headed analysis. You are excellent!
I am not exactly thrilled with the economic results President Trump has achieved thus far. The "Golden Age" shtick might make for good memes but it's a load of malarkey at this point.
But Donald Trump did not create the economic mess we're in. The worst that can be said about his economic policies is that they have not had the impact we need to clean up the economic mess we're in.
Perhaps that will change in 2026. I hope it does. But my criticism of Donald Trump's economic track record for 2025 is that "no, things did not get better".
My criticism of the Biden Reign of Error was and is "things got considerably worse."
Found the problem…
https://x.com/thebabylonbee/status/2010381238998036801?s=46
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That's awesome!
You’re right, Peter, there are plenty of details in this report that are concerning. For example, retail jobs fell in December - during the Christmas-shopping season, when many stores make 90% of their profits for the year and frequently hire extra labor. That’s a bad sign!
And it’s not Trump’s fault. Here in Minneapolis, the city “leaders” (grrr) have enacted one ordinance after another that are detrimental to retail businesses. They’ve taken away parking spaces; mandated minimum-wages that retail cannot afford; implemented a paid “family leave” that retail truly can’t afford, and so on. The net result has been retail prices that have been required to rise in order to pay for all of these benefits, and then shoppers see that they can buy the same items online for a fraction of the retail price. What a surprise - the stores go out of business! This is the result of Woke, socialist policies spun up during the Biden years, NOT the fault of Trump!
Thank you once again, Peter, for your clear-headed analysis. You are excellent!
I am not exactly thrilled with the economic results President Trump has achieved thus far. The "Golden Age" shtick might make for good memes but it's a load of malarkey at this point.
But Donald Trump did not create the economic mess we're in. The worst that can be said about his economic policies is that they have not had the impact we need to clean up the economic mess we're in.
Perhaps that will change in 2026. I hope it does. But my criticism of Donald Trump's economic track record for 2025 is that "no, things did not get better".
My criticism of the Biden Reign of Error was and is "things got considerably worse."