BobTheCoward
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Why is this worse?
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Why is this worse?
Horatius
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I wonder how the people advocating for voter ID laws will react to obvious evidence that such ID doesn't even work so well when a single individual is dealing with a bureaucracy who job involves checking IDs all the time.
Andy_Ross
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New book just out, “The Real Deal, My Decade Fighting Battles and Winning Wars With Trump,” is really wonderful. It is written by two people who are very smart & know me well, George Sorial & Damian Bates, as opposed to all the books where the author has no clue who I am. ENJOY!
New book just out, “The Real Deal, My Decade Fighting Battles and Winning Wars With Trump,” is really wonderful. It is written by two people who are very smart & know me well, George Sorial & Damian Bates, as opposed to all the books where the author has no clue who I am. ENJOY!
They won't care because they assume (probably quite rightly) that only certain undesirables will actually get checked when voting and not good, god fearing Americans.
Andy_Ross
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This is because the Euro and other currencies are devalued against the dollar, putting the U.S. at a big disadvantage. The Fed Interest rate way too high, added to ridiculous quantitative tightening! They don’t have a clue!
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European landmarks have a question they desperately need answering: How do you stop the tourists from coming? (link: https://bloom.bg/2R0KhAZ) bloom.bg/2R0KhAZ
This is because the Euro and other currencies are devalued against the dollar, putting the U.S. at a big disadvantage. The Fed Interest rate way too high, added to ridiculous quantitative tightening! They don’t have a clue!
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Bloomberg Opinion
European landmarks have a question they desperately need answering: How do you stop the tourists from coming? (link: https://bloom.bg/2R0KhAZ) bloom.bg/2R0KhAZ
Andy_Ross
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Maria, Dagan, Steve, Stuart V - When you are the big “piggy bank” that other countries have been ripping off for years (to a level that is not to be believed), Tariffs are a great negotiating tool, a great revenue producers and, most importantly, a powerful way to get......
...Companies to come to the U.S.A and to get companies that have left us for other lands to come back home. We stupidly lost 30% of our auto business to Mexico. If the Tariffs went on at the higher level, they would all come back, and pass. But very happy with the deal I made,...
....If Mexico produces (which I think they will). Biggest part of deal with Mexico has not yet been revealed! China is similar, except they devalue currency and subsidize companies to lessen effect of 25% Tariff. So far, little effect to consumer. Companies will relocate to U.S.
Maria, Dagan, Steve, Stuart V - When you are the big “piggy bank” that other countries have been ripping off for years (to a level that is not to be believed), Tariffs are a great negotiating tool, a great revenue producers and, most importantly, a powerful way to get......
...Companies to come to the U.S.A and to get companies that have left us for other lands to come back home. We stupidly lost 30% of our auto business to Mexico. If the Tariffs went on at the higher level, they would all come back, and pass. But very happy with the deal I made,...
....If Mexico produces (which I think they will). Biggest part of deal with Mexico has not yet been revealed! China is similar, except they devalue currency and subsidize companies to lessen effect of 25% Tariff. So far, little effect to consumer. Companies will relocate to U.S.
Norman Alexander
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Sounds like Downfall!
TellyKNeasuss
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I suppose that it's the sheer volume of corruption that is making every new item seem worse.
Hellbound
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Think of it like being trapped under an outhouse. It's not that any particular mass of fecal matter is that much different from any other, but when another one drops and lands on your head it still makes it that much worse of a day.
lomiller
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Posted this in the "America will be like Venezuela" thread but it's applicable here as well.
Back to Venezuela and how countries end up in that type of currency mess. Again it’s almost always because politicians playing with the money supply as a way to help their popularity.
What’s going on in the US:
Before the 2016 election Trump pressures the Fed to increase interest rates to create an artificial economic downturn which he feels will help his election chances.
Now, he’s pressuring the Fed to lower interest rates to create an artificial economic boost to help his chances in the upcoming election.
This type of interfering with the money supply is economic death for a nation. It what undermined faith in currency in Venezuela, and if allowed to happen would have the same effect in the US. Fortunately the Fed has largely ignored Trump so far, but he’s been using appointments to undermine their decision making ability.
Mismanaging the Fed like this is something that will kill the US economy.
ponderingturtle
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So what? As long as you convince enough people it was the democrats fault how is this a bad thing if it lets them consolidate power?
Steve
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I'm innocent I tell ya!! Nothing to do with me!!!
Segnosaur
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Ignoring of course that the democratically controlled house has passed dozens of pieces of legislation, but that most of their work (even stuff that was bipartisan) either never reaches the floor of the senate (thanks in large part to Mitch McConnell) or gets vetoed.
USA vs. Rest of the World. Doesn't Trump realise other countries will put up Tariffs too? If producing in the US means you have to pay a tariff to sell to the rest of the world, but you can produce elsewhere and pay no tariff, well you might produce in the US for a home market and be unable to compete for external markets or you might just think elsewhere costs of steel, labour etc are lower so we can still produce at a competitive price to the US market and be able to sell to the rest of the world.
(Anyway I thought all the US piggy bank was full of was IOU notes!)
Hellbound
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Trump just takes them and crosses out the last two letters.
Now I understand! Trump actually has a sound economic strategy; if he behaves irrationally, even stupidly then the dollar will devalue and this will boost the US balance of trade. I bet he thinks "My God! Just how stupid do I have to appear to get the dollar to fall. Surely threatening 25% tariffs on Mexico and blowing the (son of) NAFTA will make them lose hope?"
Segnosaur
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Trump's Tweet:
Good day in the Stock Market. People have no idea the tremendous potential our Country has for GROWTH - and many other things!
The time stamp on the tweet was June 11, 6:55AM.
After opening ~118 points higher than yesterday, the DOW has started to drop, and as of 1pm had dropped 169 points from the start of session (and is 51 points below yesterday's close.)
Good day in the Stock Market. People have no idea the tremendous potential our Country has for GROWTH - and many other things!
The time stamp on the tweet was June 11, 6:55AM.
After opening ~118 points higher than yesterday, the DOW has started to drop, and as of 1pm had dropped 169 points from the start of session (and is 51 points below yesterday's close.)
Armitage72
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Maybe Trump has people short-selling for him, and he's been deliberately trying to tank the Market.
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