The rude gauge

Growth king, or work-war idiot?

A fun barometer of who grows the pie and who picks a fight with work itself. Six axes, a needle, and a causal chain from the structural crack to the likely landing. Editorial — not a court.

Cabinet average

Trump cabinet on the growth–idiot scale. 100 is king. 0 is a war on work.

Work-war idiotMixed bagGrowth king

Builders sit right. Work-war sits left. Energy and a tax cliff avoided pull this number up. A personalised Fed and a labour raid without training pull it down.

The reading

Chris Wright

Energy

Builder68/100

Work-war idiotBuilderGrowth king

Molecules and megawatts. If the data-center boom has electrons, his score holds. If the queue wins, it collapses.

King move

Treat firm power as industrial policy, not a sermon.

Work-war move

A culture-war EPA war that stalls nuclear and wires too.

Six axes

Energy9/10
Dear powerCheap power
Hiring6/10
Afraid to hireEasy to hire
Capital7/10
Tax it outLet it land
Building6/10
No cranesCranes up
Hours6/10
Pay people to leaveKeep people in work
Red tape7/10
Gold-plate itCut the form

Causal chains

Editorial economic-competence gauge, not a court and not a Nobel. Six axes: energy, hiring, capital, building, hours in work, red tape. Scores are a judgement from public records of this term and the last — not a bribery charge, not a voting recommendation.