{"id":508000,"date":"2026-04-02T00:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508000\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:19:09","slug":"keeping-track-of-trumps-economy-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508000\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Track Of Trump&#8217;s Economy: February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      Gas has stayed relatively consistent throughout Trump&#8217;s second term. The price per gallon has bounced between a low of $2.936 and a high of $3.299 on average in the US. This month, it&#8217;s sitting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/dnav\/pet\/hist\/LEAFHandler.ashx?n=PET&amp;s=EMM_EPM0_PTE_NUS_DPG&amp;f=M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$3.039<\/a> according to the US Energy Information Administration&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but I can&#8217;t help feeling like I&#8217;m stepping onto a platform and waiting for the floor to drop under me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is simply a fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/gas-oil-prices-cost-iran-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the war in Iran is affecting gas prices,<\/a> and though those figures won&#8217;t come in until March is over, I know from my own rubbernecking past gas stations that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/bellaarnold\/la-gas-station-price\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the numbers aren&#8217;t pretty.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas has stayed relatively consistent throughout Trump&#8217;s second term. The price per gallon has bounced between a low&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,51344,2553,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-508000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-food-tasty","11":"tag-timely","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}