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deficit spending and the government debt are of more concern

2/3 of your tables uptick in 2022 when inflation was extra hot. I bet theres correlation to awareness with perceived inflation. A good table to add would be "money printing" or "debasement"

The DOGE op last year made sure to press on the talking point that government spending is what causes inflation. But that was also a segue to the fraud headlines this year, not all government spending has the same inflationary effect... government spending can be deflationary but the principal-agent problem effectively ensures that's never the case.

Here's the table for "money printing"

yeartermresults
2016"money printing"2370
2017"money printing"3300
2018"money printing"4560
2019"money printing"5560
2020"money printing"8320
2021"money printing"8980
2022"money printing"14k
2023"money printing"18k
2024"money printing"30k
2025"money printing"57k
2026"money printing"163k*

*estimated

But I'm pretty suspicious of my methodology. This trend towards an increase in results is visible in all the charts except the "national debt" one, but I wonder if Google doesn't do something to curtail results after they reach the some multiple of millions.

Also for the 2026 year I'm taking the number of results produced in the first third of the year extrapolating for a full year.

For instance, here is the result for the search term "noodles"

yeartermresults
2016"noodles"24k
2017"noodles"26k
2018"noodles"34k
2019"noodles"39k
2020"noodles"39k
2021"noodles"44k
2022"noodles"55k
2023"noodles"69k
2024"noodles"92k
2025"noodles"113k
2026"noodles"243k*

The slopocalypse is upon us.

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I'm the furthest thing from a statician but that looks like a nice control, and confirms my bias, parabolic uptick in 2022

Slop from 24 onward definitely poisons anything onward

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