Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump's war, pushing the economy off the wall.

The rising gas prices, the instability.

The disruptions are taking their toll, and the signs are starting to show in indicators and projections.

Let's start with the big one. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development forecasts

U.S. inflation for 2026 to hit 4.2%. That's more than double the target. It's also concerning because the previous

inflation estimate from prior to Trump's war was 2.8%. That's a sharp increase. The OECD attributes it to both

Trump's war and Trump's tariffs, and said, quote,

The breadth and duration of the conflict are very uncertain, but a prolonged period of higher

energy prices will add markedly to business costs and raise consumer price inflation,

with adverse consequences for growth.

Add into this the Federal Open Market Committee Vice Chair, Philip Jefferson,

which is the committee that controls interest rates, said, quote.

The ongoing uncertainty over tariff policy and the recent jump in energy prices,

however, complicates, at least in the short term, the picture on both sides of our dual mandate

of maximum employment and price stability. He went on to suggest that creates a, quote, downside risk to the

labor market and upside risk to inflation. If you add low economic growth to that, you have

stagflation. The next meeting of the FOMC is at the end of April,

and while the Fed hasn't yet indicated rate hikes, traders have pushed the probability of a rate

increase this year to 52%. Mortgage rates are already going up, not speculation, but actual climbs now. It was up to 6.62% on Thursday.

Remember when Pam Bondi told people the Dow was over 50,000? Well, that was the week of the Dow's high. It was down 10.01% on Friday.

That means it's technically in correction territory. While the average American may not follow these

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