Economic Reality Check: Poll Numbers Don’t Lie

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Economic reality. yes. From the Gordon Gekko, tell our paper speech. yeah, I love that speech. It was great. And I actually use that. It’s part of my intro to watch dog on Wall Street show political and economic reality. And again, that speech, Gekko was spot on on a lot of things at that point in time. Well, this is this is the actual reality.

for the president who is going to give a speech tonight, requested to give a speech to the nation. He’s going to basically tout everything that he has done this year. His economic approval right now, and please don’t give me the butts, okay? This is the same poll, same poll that did Biden and gave him horrible numbers as well.

His economic approval is at 36%. He’s one point ahead of Biden at Biden’s worst. 57 % disapproval when it comes to the overall economy. What can you attribute this to? Again, that supposed hoax that we’re told it’s a hoax affordability, affordability was never.

It was never a hoax. It was one of the unique qualities that Bill Clinton had was, remember that? I feel your pain. He had the ability to listen and to empathize with people. In 1998, and as was with the Lewinsky crap going on at that point, he had an approval rating that was in the 60s.

He an approval rating in the 60s at that point in time, during the midterms. He actually, they won. That’s rare. The only other time I think that the president wondered a bit was Bush. yeah, 2002, if I’m not mistaken. Again, was September 11th all the things happening at that point in time was Clinton in 1998 and Bush, where the party

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who had the president gain seats during the midterms. Anyway, stories in regards to jobs, know, spooked by AI and layoffs, white collar workers see their security slip away. That’s part of it. You’re not getting any argument with me there. Companies are very reluctant. trying to figure this out. Part of it.

part of it and people exactly aren’t thrilled about. You have an unemployment rate for the youth in this country that’s hovering around 10%, around 10%. The jobs numbers, and then we talked about them this past week. Certain influences are, you can, different ways of taking a look at the jobs numbers. Again, the left wing.

Influencers out there and people on the left how horrible they are. We’ve only added this, you know, this amount of jobs You know since the symbol since liberation day and it’s terrible. Yeah, that’s True, but also we’ve also lost a lot of government jobs, which quite frankly in my opinion is actually a good thing the manufacturing jobs, that’s An issue we’ve got us. There’s no doubt. We have a mediocre

jobs market at this point in time, it’s mediocre. But like I stated, when Liberation Day kicked off, the input costs for certain items due to tariffs make it difficult, more difficult to manufacture here in the United States. One of the attractions of opening up a plant here in the United States, one reason why Germany, move a lot of car manufacturers here,

to the United States plants here is because our energy costs are lower. But then when all of a sudden you start slapping tariffs on steel, and what happens here in the United States? All right, we took over US Steel, but US gonna raise their prices because guess what? Why wouldn’t they? Where else you gonna buy steel from? You know, you gotta buy it from overseas. You can’t buy cheap steel from overseas because it’s got tariffs on it. So we’re just gonna raise our prices too.

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that doesn’t help and that doesn’t help when it comes to manufacturing. All issues that are important at this point in time. I hope the president, again, I’m again, I’m not holding my breath on this one, use this opportunity to see me maybe to pivot a little bit, maybe to pivot a little bit and talk about the things that we are going to do to bring prices down, acknowledge that they’re actually

is problem. Nothing wrong with that. But don’t give us gimmicks. He starts talking about tariff refund checks and you know, we’re giving away cash, turns his address into some you know, half ass Oprah Winfrey show. Nobody’s gonna buy that out there outside of all of his true believers. So

We have an economic reality. It’s showing up in the poll numbers. Republicans are gonna get their asses kicked unless they do something about it sooner rather than later. They know it in Congress. They’re well aware. So you know what? Why not?

Why not? You’ve got nothing else to lose at this point in time. To make a bit of a football, you know what? You might have to start going for it on fourth down. Watch Dog on wallstreet.com.