Konomy Quiz 3.15.25: Presidents and stocks

Two months into President Trump's second term, stocks are struggling. How did stocks perform during Trump's first term? Take the quiz and find out. Top score is 90. Go!

Learn more:

Yahoo Finance (among other sites) has great tools for analyzing stock price history.

Little known-fact: Each of the 11 S&P industry sectors has a ticker symbol allowing you to research historical performance. Here's a cheat sheet:

Communications: ^SP500-50

Consumer discretionary: ^SP500-25

Consumer staples: ^SP500-30

Energy: ^SP500-10

Financials: ^SP500-40

Health care: ^HCX

Industrials: ^SP500-20

Information technology: ^SP500-45

Materials: ^SP500-15 Real estate: ^SP500-60

Utilities: ^SP500-55 Full S&P 500 index: ^SPX

The hemline index is probably a bogus theory. And yes, it's ironic that oil and gas firms performed way better under Biden than they did during Trump's first term.

Konomy Quiz 3.8.2025: Eggflation

You might know how you like your eggs. But how much do you know about prices? Top score is 80. Go!

Learn more about eggs:

Here's a good explainer on avian flu.

There are several ways to measure egg prices. I used Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

I based family-budget figures on the way BLS breaks down several hundred spending categories.

I like this explainer of the winter egg slowdown. The depressing ways chickens live.

The real cost of backyard eggs. Trump's eggflation plan.

Konomy Quiz 2.23.25: All this tariff talk

President Donald Trump is imposing tariffs on billions of dollars of imports. How much do you know about tariffs? Top score is 80. Go!

Learn more about tariffs:

The basics.

Some history.

Some more history.

Why Trump admires William McKinley, by my Yahoo Finance buddy Ben Werschkul.

A famous movie clip about the Smoot-Hawley tariffs. 🤣

How washing machine tariffs drove up prices (by me).

One estimate of the effects of Trump's tariffs.