A full report card on the first 100 days

[ElmerMudd]

GDP down .03% in first quarter. The first time GDP declined since the middle of the COVID crisis.

The stock market has plummeted.

Bond market has been effected by Trump. There has been a large sell off resulting in the US paying higher interest rate on future debt.

US spending under Trump has INCREASED compared to the same time frame as last year.

The only measurement that Trump has maintained Biden is job growth. Not better but the same

Gross Domestic Product, 1st Quarter 2025 (Advance Estimate) | U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the first quarter of 2025 (January, February, and March), according to the advance estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter of 2024, real GDP increased 2.4 percent.

www.bea.gov

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-tariffs-trade-war-04-29-2025/card/trump-s-first-100-days-are-on-pace-to-be-worst-for-dow-s-p-500-since-nixon-QHgeCDyBnZAMs805b5sR

What are bonds and why have they spooked Donald Trump?

The reason the US president had to back down on tariffs once investors started dumping treasury bonds

www.theguardian.com

 

[Meister]

Less government jobs and more private sector jobs. The economy is doing good.

.03% is not a panic number with the GDP. Stay tuned.

 

[kyzr]

Less government jobs and more private sector jobs. The economy is doing good.
.03% is not a panic number with the GDP. Stay tuned.

When the revision comes out that will be a positive number.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

US spending under Trump has INCREASED compared to the same time frame as last year.

Trump’s slash and burn scorched earth attack on the Federal government backfires – there’s no limit to Trump’s incompetence and stupidity.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Trump is responsible.