The Iran war and the re-imposed tariffs, priced in government data: ships through Hormuz, crude oil, fourteen household prices, hiring, and what the Pentagon spent. Every figure is sourced, and every block of the page shows its work.
Household cost: $89 a month, $1,636 since 20 January 2025.
Crude oil: $57 a barrel in January 2026, $115 at the peak.
Strait of Hormuz: 83 ships a day before the war, 3 now (IMF PortWatch, seven-day mean).
Diesel: $6.53 a gallon, a record (EIA weekly national average).
Jobs: 321,000 a month in the previous term, 42,000 a month since.
The war: 18 Americans dead, 42 aircraft lost or damaged, $43.6bn spent.
Gold: 164 tonnes of foreign gold taken out of the New York Fed in ten months.
Updated 2026-09-25. Published by Samizdat Publications.