Primary sources & resources
The public record behind every argument.
This directory gathers the official records, government datasets, independent research, and supporting reporting linked throughout Trump Economic Disaster. It reads the publication’s WordPress Posts directly, so each newly published article and its cited records are added automatically.
Orders, statutes, agency notices, public statements, budget documents, and government datasets.
Academic work, institutional analysis, models, estimates, and studies with clearly identified methods.
Credible reporting used to establish events, negotiations, implementation details, and contemporaneous context.
Source standard
What belongs in the record.
A source is useful only when readers can understand what it establishes, where its limits begin, and whether it is the controlling record or an interpretation of that record.
Start with the decision itself.
Executive orders, proclamations, statutes, agency rules, tariff schedules, court documents, and official implementation notices take priority over summaries of those materials.
Use the strongest available data.
Claims about jobs, prices, growth, trade, revenue, debt, or household conditions should point to the relevant release, series, observation period, and revision status.
Identify what a source can prove.
A forecast is not an observed result. A news report is not the legal text. A model estimate is not a complete causal finding. The source description should make that boundary visible.
Live source directory
Records cited across the publication.
The directory recognizes the current article source headings—including “Primary documentation and reporting,” “Sources and supporting documents,” and “Sources and underlying economic data”—as well as the structured TED source field used by the article template.
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Important distinction
A link is evidence access—not automatic proof.
The strength of a claim depends on whether the cited material actually supports it, how current the material is, and whether uncertainty or revision risk has been acknowledged.
Primary does not mean infallible.
Official releases can be preliminary, revised, incomplete, contested, or framed to support an agency’s position. Their status and limits still matter.
Secondary does not mean disposable.
Reporting and independent analysis can reveal implementation details, synthesize complex material, test assumptions, and identify contradictions not visible in a single document.
Article-level descriptions carry the meaning.
Whenever possible, each structured source entry states what the record establishes rather than presenting an unexplained list of links.
The record changes.
Revised data, final rules, court decisions, and later implementation materials may supersede what was available at publication. Material changes belong in the corrections and updates log.
Check the record. Then test the argument.
Read how evidence is classified, how uncertainty is handled, and how material changes are corrected after publication.