[OC] US government and economic data (take 4) fixed house and senate majorities

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1. Thanks everyone on the feedback of my initial post and corrections on my subsequent posts. Data should be accurate now (hopefully).

   Also updated the heat map on inflation data to the feds target of 2%, migrating below 2% to yellow and above 2% to red. Also added sources, and tool used below:

   Federal Revenue & Spending: [https://usafacts.org/state-of-the-union/budget/](https://usafacts.org/state-of-the-union/budget/)

   To Convert revenue & spending to 2024 dollars: [https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/](https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/)

   US Inflation rate data: [https://www.investopedia.com/inflation-rate-by-year-7253832](https://www.investopedia.com/inflation-rate-by-year-7253832)

   US GDP data: [https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=US](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=US)

   US Unemployment data: [https://www.investopedia.com/historical-us-unemployment-rate-by-year-7495494](https://www.investopedia.com/historical-us-unemployment-rate-by-year-7495494)

   S&P 500 YTD returns: [https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500/returns](https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500/returns)

   Control of the senate: [https://www.senate.gov/history/partydiv.htm](https://www.senate.gov/history/partydiv.htm)

   Control of the house: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_States_Congresses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_States_Congresses)

   Tools used: MS Excel

2. This is really neat. There’s so much buried in the data the longer you look.

3. I appreciate the objective data — it is hard to find on Reddit nowadays