The 2025 US economy – in charts: rising prices, hiring slowdown, rollercoaster growth
by Callum Jones and Aliya Uteuova from Economics | The Guardian on (#72EBF)
Looking at the government's own report cards, how did the US fare under the first year of Trumponomics 2.0?
The US economy is thriving, according to Donald Trump: jobs are surging, prices are falling, wages are soaring. The government's own official statistics paint a more complicated picture of 2025.
The Trump Economic Golden Age is FULL steam ahead," the president claimed on social media, after growth data for the third quarter of the year - covering July, August and September - was unexpectedly strong.
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