By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack
February 26, 2026
You can see the graph of the "Real Median Household Income in the United States" from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ("FRED"), and it shows that in 1989 the median was $66,290, and 35 years later in 2024 it was $83,730. This is an annual growth-rate of less than 1%; it is 0.662%. America has had a stagnant economy for at least 35 years, notwithstanding the constant lies from 'journalists', politicians, 'historians', and other propagandists for the American empire, which has been dissipating Americans' taxes by sanctioning, couping, and invading, what this dictatorship-by-its-super-rich label as being "autocracies' in order to 'justify' their scam against the American people so they'll be deceived to think this political show pitting two actually fascist political Parties against each other constitutes some sort of democracy.