Good, mad and ugly: the US economy’s performance under Trump – in charts
by Callum Jones with charts by Andrew Witherspoon from Economics | The Guardian on (#6Z2AC)
Despite president's claims of an economic boom, picture is chaotic - healthy GDP growth but weak jobs figures
According to Donald Trump's White House, the US economy is booming, inflation is dead and jobs are surging. A blizzard of economic reports has cast a pall on such claims in recent days.
This week's data on Trump's early economic record was mixed - good, mad and ugly - with jobs numbers so weak he reached for the catchphrase he once used to build himself into a reality TV star: you're fired.
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