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Figure 1. Actual deficits for 2020–2025, CBO’s updated 2026 estimate, the February baseline for 2027–2036, and Pattern Nexus calculations for 2037–2040 using CBO’s published deficit share of GDP and nominal GDP series.
Figure 1. Actual deficits for 2020–2025, CBO’s updated 2026 estimate, the February baseline for 2027–2036, and Pattern Nexus calculations for 2037–2040 using CBO’s published deficit share of GDP and nominal GDP series.
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The Deficit Never Ends: How Annual Shortfalls Build a $78.8 Trillion Federal Debt Load

Most people use “deficit” and “debt” as if they mean the same thing. They do not. This report uses two Pattern Nexus infographics and official CBO and Treasury data to map the annual federal deficit and total federal de…

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Aug 22, 2026
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Pattern Nexus chart reconstructing the dominant global financial core from Amsterdam to London to New York between 1650 and 2025
Figure 1. The core proxy follows the centre issuing the dominant settlement asset and hosting the deepest cross-border financial network. It is not presented as literal world GDP.
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The Sun, Money and the Global Core: What Survived a 375-Year Test

I rebuilt the solar-recession thesis around the dominant global financial core instead of a modern U.S. sample: Amsterdam and the guilder, London and sterling, then New York and the dollar. Across 375 years, the data re…

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Figure 1. Total vehicle sales and NBER recessions. Sales weaken in every recession, but supply shocks, strikes, policy changes and temporary rate shocks can produce non-recession declines. Source: BEA, NBER/FRED and Pat…
Figure 1. Total vehicle sales and NBER recessions. Sales weaken in every recession, but supply shocks, strikes, policy changes and temporary rate shocks can produce non-recession declines. Source: BEA, NBER/FRED and Pattern Nexus calculations.
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Are Auto Sales Predicting a Recession? A 50-Year Regression and the 2026 Signal

Vehicle sales normally weaken before recession becomes obvious elsewhere. Pattern Nexus reconstructs every U.S. recession since 1976, builds auto-only and cross-channel recession models, audits prices, financing, delinq…

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Sep 13, 2026
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Bar chart comparing Q1 and Q2 2026 real GDP, private domestic final sales and current-dollar GDP
Figure 1. Real GDP slowed, but the private domestic engine and current-dollar economy accelerated. Source: BEA; Pattern Nexus chart.
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GDP Slowed to 1.5%—But the U.S. Economy Did Not Weaken the Way the Headline Implies

Real GDP slowed to a 1.5% annual rate in Q2 2026, but the private domestic economy accelerated to 3.9% while nominal GDP grew 7.9%. This Pattern Nexus analysis separates the headline from the internal economy and explai…

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Aug 4, 2026
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U.S. commercial petroleum inventory and Strategic Petroleum Reserve from 1956 to 2026
Figure 1. U.S. commercial crude and product inventories excluding the SPR, with the SPR shown separately. Source: EIA; Pattern Nexus calculations.
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The Oil Inventory War Machine: How Long the Global Buffer Can Hold

A full Pattern Nexus reconstruction of U.S. and global oil inventories from the 1970s through the 2026 war shock, including original regressions, depletion scenarios, strategic reserves, refinery constraints, inflation,…

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Aug 30, 2026
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