What Trump’s war with Iran and his tariffs have cost Americans, in the government’s own numbers.
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The Iran war and the re-imposed tariffs, priced in government data: ships through Hormuz, crude oil, fourteen household prices, hiring, and what the Pentagon spent. Every figure is sourced, and every block of the page shows its work.
Household cost: $89 a month, $1,636 since 20 January 2025.
Crude oil: $57 a barrel in January 2026, $115 at the peak, $96 at the latest close.
Strait of Hormuz: 83 ships a day before the war, 3 now (IMF PortWatch, seven-day mean).
Diesel: $6.20 a gallon (EIA weekly national average).
Jobs: 166,000 a month in 2023 and 2024, 39,000 a month since 20 January 2025.
The war: 21 Americans dead, 81 aircraft lost or damaged, $43.6bn spent.
Gold: 193 tonnes of foreign gold taken out of the New York Fed in twelve months.
Updated 2026-10-14. Published by Samizdat Publications.