Demos

The People

When bread is costly, circuses aren’t enough.
— apologies to Juvenal

DEMOS · THE PEOPLE

The Mood of the Crowd

How households feel, measured against everything they have felt before

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The Camel's Back

Four structural loads, one bending spine — the Generational Squeeze made visible.

Spine strain: —

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Generational Squeeze Index
(1970s = 100)

100 · 1970s150200

Loads indexed to a 1970s base of 100; the Index is their geometric mean. Dependency, retirement duration and house-price-to-earnings are directional index values; tax-to-GDP is anchored to OBR data. ILLUSTRATIVE

Hot or Not

U.S. presidential job approval, Truman to present — Gallup, and where Gallup stopped, named national polls

At or above 50% approve Below 50% Sparse interval (>150 days between reads)

Source: Gallup (news.gallup.com), read directly from Gallup's own published historical trend pages — [Confirmed]. Gallup ended presidential approval tracking Feb 2026 after 90 years; readings from Feb 2026 onward are drawn from AP‑NORC, CNN/SSRS, Marist/NPR/PBS, Verasight, Pew and Reuters/Ipsos, each dated to its own polling window. The Apr 1990–Jan 1993 stretch (G.H.W. Bush) is anchor points only (peak/low), not a continuous weekly series — shown dashed. Static dataset, refresh by hand alongside other Cape Fear‑pattern artefacts. Not a forecast; house style applies no partisan framing.