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Americans Are Poorer
I came across this data on real (i.e., inflation-adjusted) household income. It explains precisely why Harris lost the election and highlights the corrosive effects of the 21.0% inflation during the Biden-Harris administration and the failure of Bidenomics. Twenty-seven states experienced their peak of median real household income during the Trump administration. Since then real median household income nationwide has declined by almost 1% ($81,210 in 2019 vs $80,610 in the most recent data).
It’s also fascinating to look at who’s not poorer. Top of the heap is Washington, DC, where median real household income is $111,000. That’s far ahead of the next highest — Massachusetts at $106,500. Working for or lobbying the federal government pays really, really well. Hopefully, the soon-to-arrive Trump-2 administration can repeat their pre-COVID success from the first go-round.
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Good post, Ekosj.
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Life is supported by profits and wages. The Fed is pushing the wealth effect, which is just jacking up assets to get people to spend.
Supposedly 2/3 of the country lives paycheck to paycheck. Something like that.
The value of the US dollar, which they force you to use, has gone down 50% since 1998.
They force you into Medicare and Social Security, which are both actuarial disasters.
Most people sort of beat this by buying a house, with all of the expenses involved and the ill liquidity. Then you get 2008.
Then people whine about socialism and populism.
I am sick of experts.
[EDIT: This Comment is not valid. Thanks and a hat tip to Bob Armstrong for pointing out my error]
Interesting data. They tend to support your conclusion.
But the data have two statistical anomalies. They look fishy.
The numbers of states in each equal sized range of values trend upward as you approach the mean of 0.7 from below, as you would expect in any such distribution.
The numbers increase to a peak, with 11 of 51 clustered at exactly 0.0%, but then collapses suddenly to zero. I would say the chances of this being explained by a typical random variation about the mean are almost nil.
Real data never look like that. Something or someone in the data gathering and consolidation process almost certainly has altered the numbers.
Thanks, Ekosj. I always appreciate your posts.
I noticed that not a one peaked in 2024.
The measurement is a percentage decline from peak. For those states listed as 0.0%, they are at their peak in 2023 and thus have 0% decline from peak. This form of measurement makes it impossible to have a value greater than 0% by definition.
Thanks, Bob.
I should have read the graph carefully.
You misunderstand the data. The most recent year for which data is available is 2023. 2024 won’t be available until September 2025. So States that reached peak real median household income in 2023 have 0% as the difference between the most current data (2023) and the peak (also 2023).
The spouse was looking over my shoulder yesterday when he read the header to this topic.
(sidebar comment: Will he never leave? He thinks he lives here!)
Anyway a moment ago he came up to me to report his newest slogan, which is “MEAA“.
It stands for Make Eggs Affordable Again!
Many of those issues are state-specific, especially to California. Eggs in Arizona, and where I live now, never got that high.
The price of eggs will get that high if destruction of the food processing and distribution centers continue and then end up happening in your region.
Also the major WEF/Bill Gates’ plans include having an avian flu panic ensue such that chickens and eggs, as well as cattle are eliminated.
I’d like to think that Trump would see to it we don’t fall under the grip of Plandemic II, but I’m not going to hold my breath.
Just given what he himself has said, it is difficult for me to believe that a competent prosecutor couldn’t put Gates away for life. He has latched onto Bond villains as role models.
Look at how inflated prices had tapered off in 2019.
COVID panic then wiped out the gains, as noted in this graphic:
Oops.
Using color pieces of paper as “money” is ridiculous. The government forces it and what do we get back?
Currently the reaction to our using colored pieces of paper of money has been three-fold: