FRED® Series PCE: Personal Consumption Expenditures, Bil. of $

That's billions, pumpkin.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE

Who did Helen piss off that they turned on her?

“Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.” — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Truth and Tolerance (Ignatius Press, 2004), 116.