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By Jennifer Rubin, The Contrarian
"The economy is at the mercy of the least informed president in history"
Trump’s scattered brain creates havoc
From Paul Krugman:
"Why you shouldn’t get excited about his “deals”"
Will Trump Pretend to Fix What…
"So you let people go and you're looking for new people to fill the positions that they had experience in?"
Help me out here please, how is this efficient in any way, shape or form? What is the motivation other than to create fear or chaos? Some sy…
@Old_Joe - I thought that Kristi Noem was the dog shooter. Bondi does it too? And please, there's more brain matter in cow pies than there is in these two combined.
You don't need to be a lawyer to understand the constitution. Try reading it dumb ass or get your mommy to read it to you.
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance - The Week Ahead
Heather Cox Richardson - Letters From an American
Yes, yes and more yes but all of little importance. What is important is that his flock of devotees swallow it hook, line and sinker no matter how ludicrous or insane.
I too read forecasts, mostly to learn the various pluses and minuses that shape how they think. No way could I cover that on my own.
No matter how good they are I don't see how any of them can handle todays 3-min tweets of change.
58,220 US casualties and 1,582 Americans remain MIA/POW to date. I won't ever be forgetting any of that. So difficult to believe that was over 50 years ago.
"Why is the freakin government even involved with corporate decisions like this."
Because it reveals them as the complete and utter fools they are. Their followers are convinced that other countries or folks will be paying those tariffs but certain…
I'd merely add a couple:
- next election engage your brain before filling in those little circles
- also use your right to vote. How many people did not vote again? (hint 36%)
"China is open to dialogue based on mutual respect, he added. 'If the U.S. really wants to solve the problem, it should take seriously the rational voices from the international community and domestic sectors, and fully eliminate all unilateral tari…
“In addition to the existing pressures of high prices and high mortgage rates, prices for home furnishing will likely rise soon due to tariffs, and rising anxiety among consumers over inflation and jobs may magnify the instinct to hunker down alread…
@Sven - Above you asked about Navarro "Does he understand how tariffs works? Thought Navarro received his doctorate in economics from Harvard."
From a Robert Reich substack post - "At the same time, trade adviser Peter Navarro has entered into a pu…
“You can see a world where Europe, Australia, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, China, all trade together and build a powerhouse in years to come,” he said. “There is a big market out there, which you could find America gets excluded from, a lot of imports and…
@larryB - or 5 min from now or tomorrow morning. I can't and don't trust this current market at all.
@Crash - Thanks. I was hoping that I wasn't the only one. Took some recently bought ABBV shares off the board near the open. Tempted to take some QQ…
Apologies for the topic drift but wasn't one of the promises Pete made if confirmed was to give up the bottle? Or am I confusing that with someone else.
"At what point does Wharton revoke his 'business' degree .... probably never as long as his dead daddy's estate keeps up the donation bribe money paid to graduate him in the first place.
