Eggs, coffee, bacon — what the morning costs now versus 2019.
Wage growth ran below inflation for two years — then flipped back.
Home prices and mortgage rates outran paychecks after 2021.
Food-at-home cooled off. Eating out kept climbing.
Core inflation, the funds rate, the 2-year, and the jobless rate — one glance.
The Great Resignation arc: openings and quits boomed, then faded to normal.
Locked-down America bought things, not experiences — then swung back.
The yield curve and the Sahm rule — the two most-watched warning lights.
Listings collapsed in the pandemic and still haven't fully come back.
Home prices swing hard; rent ratchets up and almost never falls.
Gasoline tracks crude down to the dollar — with a sticky markup on the way back.
Spot natural gas round-tripped its 2022 spike. Your electric bill never came back down.
M2 grew 27% in a year — then shrank for the first time on record.