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🚨Trump SUFFERS as Economy takes SURPRISE TURN for WORSE

2025-09-12 News & Politics
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Job Market Revisions and the Deepening K-Shaped Economy

Understand how drastic downward job revisions and rising consumer debt reveal a persistent K-Shaped economic reality that current policy seems unable to address.

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  • US labor data experienced revisions showing 911,000 fewer jobs added over a year, forcing a re-evaluation of growth rates.
  • Consumer credit increased significantly ($16 billion in July), which analysts often misinterpret as strength rather than necessity.
  • The economy is structurally K-Shaped, meaning the top 20% thrive while the bottom 80% rely on increasing debt to cope with inflation.
  • Policymakers face stagflation risks, complicated by tariff impacts and the inability to use historical rate-hike solutions.

This analysis connects surprising labor statistics with debt trends to explain why the economic recovery remains unevenly distributed across income brackets. You will learn why standard economic metrics mask underlying fragility for the majority of Americans.

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From Max from @UNFTR. Revisions to the job market data showed that the US economy added 911,000 fewer jobs between 2024 and first quarter of 2025. These figures take a long time to reconcile and usually they’re to the upside. Instead, the Trump administration must now contend with inflation creeping throughout the economy and extreme job losses in the real economy. Buried in this news was the shocking revelation that consumer debt also increased by $16 billion in July, much more than anticipated. Some view this as a sign of a healthy consumer, but as we demonstrate, that’s not the case in the “K-Shaped” economy we live in. Sign up for the FREE weekly UNFTR newsletter https://www.unftr.com/newsletter Check out the MeidasMax Bookshop Collection https://bookshop.org/lists/the-meidasmax-collection Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! MeidasTouch relies on SnapStream to record, watch, monitor, and clip the news. Get a FREE TRIAL of SnapStream by clicking here: https://go.snapstream.com/affiliate/meidastouch/meidasnews?utm_campaign=4490308-affiliate2025&utm_content=customerpartner Support the MeidasTouch Network: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Add the MeidasTouch Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-meidastouch-podcast/id1510240831 Buy MeidasTouch Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Follow MeidasTouch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Facebook: https://facebook.com/meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Instagram: https://instagram.com/meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@meidastouch

Top Comments (10)

@candidaprout560 2025-09-12

The worst president and the most unqualified administration ever. Wake up America

528 34 replies
@jordisaura6748 2025-09-12

They are dumping their unemployed to biden. They are this pathetic

280 7 replies
@wmp3346 2025-09-12

Convicted felon has been in office for 8 months. Fox News sucks

257 5 replies
@clownshavemorefun 2025-09-12

Fox should have been stopped a long time ago. Democrats should have had press conferences calling out their BS.

193 15 replies
@DeludedIllustrations 2025-09-12

Trump couldn't negotiate his way out of a wet paper bag. His college professor called him the dumbest student he's ever had.

184 17 replies
@fromGermany2 2025-09-12

I still can't fathom how people thought that a guy who had bankrupted all of his businesses would be a great choice to run the country ... 😶

170 10 replies
@spookymorales 2025-09-12

Donold Chump is gonna take the US economy down like the Titanic! BEWARE! We are only 8 months into this! This is BAD! ⬇🛳

84 3 replies
@markchezcat 2025-09-12

There’s no surprise about this. We all knew it was coming. It was like being in a car crash and seeing it happened before it was gonna happen.

79 2 replies
@matthewgonzales3970 2025-09-12

I'll say it again..... I got a raise that amounts to about $180 more per month. But my homeowners insurance shot through the roof and raised my mortgage by $134 a month. My employer's health insurance premiums went up and takes $120 more out of my checks every month. I had to switch auto insurance for the 2nd time in two years because premiums went up $40 a month. So I got two raises and I'm taking home LESS than last year. Add in grocery prices going up, and you get the picture. The working class is getting squeezed.

64 1 replies
@deannealbrecht774 2025-09-12

We all knew somehow his failures would be Biden's fault. Just like his first terms' failures were all bc of Obama.

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