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Should be a wild four years.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's GDPNow model predicts almost a -3% negative growth:

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This is due to exports collapse. It's worth noting that the Great Depression was brought about by, among other factors, tariffs that were supposed to guard USA industries against foreign competition:

Maybe because Apple, Honda, TSMC, and many more soon to come, weren't investing hundreds of billions of dollars after the introduction of the 1930 Hawley Tariff Act. We're in a completely different economic situation.
 
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The Pope has suffered some kind breathing crisis and is back on ventilation.
Yeah I don't think he is going to make it through the month
I know he is being a supportive son in law. But I will always laugh seeing Triple H sitting behind her. Hopefully he pedigree's some members of the senate while there today.
I want to live in a world where a professional wrestler gets elected president hopefully before we get a female one
 
Save some money and just buy milk to eat milk curds straight out of the whey itself, I swear. Get a load of milk on sale and add some organic yogurt and let it ferment overnight. It should be a totally solid mass you can spoon out. Really nice and you could freeze it for later. You could also make paneer by letting it go sour and boiling it with lemon juice.
 
Maybe because Apple, Honda, TSMC, and many more soon to come, weren't investing hundreds of billions of dollars after the introduction of the 1930 Hawley Tariff Act. We're in a completely different economic situation.
I sure hope so, a lot of my money is tied up in burger tech stocks. Don't fuck it up mutts.
 
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
This assumes my retirement is connected to that and isn’t divested in other things retard.
Yeah this goes along with every other faggot here with the "fuck you, got mine" mentality. I'm aware you're sociopaths that literally cannot fathom why someone should care if some other Joe is going to do poorly or have their retirement wiped out, but I still have empathy for the working man.
 
Trump administration thinks that they are getting nothing except leverage to get Ukraine's minerals (which apperantly don't even exist according to The US Geological Survey).
If this is true that would explain Zelensky's panic. If there's nothing there to mine there's a whole lot less leverage on his end, and Trump is demanding his money back one way or the other. The only other thing that could be worth that much is the receipts of all the people that laundered money through his country.
 
Yeah this goes along with every other faggot here with the "fuck you, got mine" mentality. I'm aware you're sociopaths that literally cannot fathom why someone should care if some other Joe is going to do poorly or have their retirement wiped out, but I still have empathy for the working man.
You are terribly boring. Someone please drag the burger suit nigger to his computer or whatever device he uses, his DEI replacements are administering textual Ambien's
 
I'm aware you're sociopaths that literally cannot fathom why someone should care if some other Joe is going to do poorly or have their retirement wiped out, but I still have empathy for the working man.
Can you give us some examples of when you demonstrated empathy for the working man sometime in the period of 2021-2024?
 
I sure hope so, a lot of my money is tied up in burger tech stocks. Don't fuck it up mutts.
I can’t imagine what kind of non-American I wouldn’t fuck over if given a chance
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Your sympathies are obviously with the camp that has ignored for fifty years that offshoring our physical value-added processes may have hollowed out the type of wealth that exists in reality, like houses and cars, and exchanged them for transistor positions that make numbers on the internet
Yeah this goes along with every other faggot here with the "fuck you, got mine" mentality. I'm aware you're sociopaths that literally cannot fathom why someone should care if some other Joe is going to do poorly or have their retirement wiped out,
My mentality comes from what I said above. My grandfather worked in a factory and he did fine enough to build a house to raise his family in and snag a cabin on the lake for summer vacations.

Then my dad worked in a factory and could barely keep the house, and now I work in a factory and can barely rent an apartment

Where did the physical wealth go? To China, dipshit

The actual THINGS you can get in exchange for your labor moved THE WRONG DIRECTION, when you consider that my labor produces a fuckton more than my dads’ or grandfathers’ did on account of improvements in efficiency
but I still have empathy for the working man.
Then listen to one
 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's GDPNow model predicts almost a -3% negative growth:

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This is due to exports collapse. It's worth noting that the Great Depression was brought about by, among other factors, tariffs that were supposed to guard USA industries against foreign competition:

This also means RATE DROP which trump desperately wants.
 
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Horticulture products = fruits & vegetables

If the full cost of the tariffs are passed on to the end consumer you could expect fresh fruits and vegetables to increase by maybe 25%.

So if green peppers from Mexico are $1 each, then they will be $1.25.

American diets are 1/4 fruits and vegetables. A 25% increase on a quarter of the diet is a 6.25% food budget increase. A $1000 a month budget becomes $1062.50

I would expect demand to dip slightly as a reaction, and local farmers to match price and reap the benefits.

I don't know if anything is buried in the Congressional budget to address this. Trump could send out DOGE rebate checks to appease people if he wanted.
 
Oh pardon me, I meant every American working that currently has a 401(k) or IRA. The rest of you that don't need to work for a retirement carry on as you were.
Bro this won’t even matter to most working joes the only people who will be fucked are most likely going to to retire in the next 4-10 years. The government isn’t gonna let a total crash out happen and will most likely keep the market afloat even if we undergo another recession chill out man.
 
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