Consumer confidence plunges 30% since Trump was elected to a second term

It's as though Putin installed a puppet in the White House.  (That could never happen, right?)

 

Top headline:  Fortune, 

Line graph:  Surveys of Consumers, University of Michigan

Bottom headline:  The Hill, 11/5/2025

Laugh line from AP report published by Fortune:

Economists were caught off guard. Those polled had expected a slight month-to-month increase for a reading of 54.2.

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