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Apple Stock Jumps as Trump Pauses Some Tariffs for 90 Days
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You spelled accurate wrong. Dude couldn't ride a bicycle, go up stairs, figure out how to get off a stage, shaking hands with invisible people. I could go on and on.
WTF are you buying eggs?Egg prices in the US have reached a record high of $6.23 (£4.82) per dozen, the latest official data shows.
Trump tariffs live updates: Wall Street stocks up at end of rollercoaster week
Trump says the US is "doing really well on our tariff policy", following fluctuations in global stock markets.www.bbc.com
What drivel.
Your President just crashed your own economy so his friends could line their own pockets. They're getting rich at your expense - your expense, not mine! - and you've fallen for it.
For decades the USA was number one in the world and we in Europe respected them for it. Now you've got no friends at all.
Well, we witnessed the largest insider trading manipulation ever. Were I live, that’s punishable. That doesn’t seem to be the case in the USA. And the silence stays deafening.
Well, at least the current Prez isn't leaving the path that Republicans have trodden throughout history before.
That's a relief.
Business as usual!
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That's a relief.
Business as usual!
The Historical Puzzle of US Economic Performance under Democrats vs. Republicans
We have heard much about the puzzle that US economic performance under President Joe Biden has been much stronger than voters perceive it to be. But the current episode is just one instance of a bigger historical puzzle: the US economy has since World War II consistently done better under...
Oh, it's still technically illegal here unless you are a FOT (friend of Trump), in which case you are free to be an insider trader, tax cheat, insurrectionist that attacks and injures police officers, and help destroy the global economy with zero repercussions.
Well, at least the current Prez isn't leaving the path that Republicans have trodden throughout history before.
That's a relief.
Business as usual!
The Historical Puzzle of US Economic Performance under Democrats vs. Republicans
We have heard much about the puzzle that US economic performance under President Joe Biden has been much stronger than voters perceive it to be. But the current episode is just one instance of a bigger historical puzzle: the US economy has since World War II consistently done better under...
Damn…that is a remarkable difference. How come this is such an underreported fact? And 47 is trying hard to continue this tradition.
Interesting times. China has stated that it is the dominant player in the world economy now, and so president Xi Jinping cannot back down from the gauntlet that Prezzy T threw down in their face.
With Prezzy T's ego going unchecked, this may very well become (already is!) a defining moment in economic and political relations.
As far as I can tell this is merely a confirmation that the VS as an economical empire is at the end of its road. It's had its heyday, and the empire has been crumbling since the 80s/90s.
(it is kinda ironic that that Prezzy T has a rap sheet as a felon and is accelerating the downfall - also seeing his remarkable number of failed businesses one cannot state this is unexpected. That said, maybe Prezzy T will do better, and save everyone!)
Funny, isn't it? No wonder MAGA and most far-right republicans had to master deflection and other methods of obfuscation to point fingers away from them and direct blame to anyone but themselves. And this is unfortunately also true for a number of other things that reps blame others for. Crime data, election data, privatization consequences data, child abuse data, environmental data, immigration data, demographic data, and so forth, and so on.
Republicans have to because a rational look at the data shows that many right-wing republican strategies do not work well for the greater good of mankind and the planet Earth based on historical data. The actual verifiable numbers almost always work against them, so they need to survive politically by negating reality somehow and create distractions. Focus on short-term rather than long-term. Strengthen feelings of tribalism. Molehills turn into gigantic volcanoes.
Social media and classic media (TV) have been the proverbial blessings for far right wing thinking in this regard. Simple lies dressed as truth always win over complex truths in the media. You know: them vs us. Using fear and polarization between groups of people. Etcetera. Teacups are said to harbour razing storms. Create anger, distract, confuse, attack, invoke fear. Which explains Qanon and similar trends. Predictable, but effective. Rinse and repeat.
Of course, it's not only (far) right-wing politicians who take advantage of this. Extreme left politicians behave the same. These tactics are known to be effective hand in hand with social media - hence the uprise in authoritarianism in the recent decades. Hence Prezzy T.
Of course, all of this is merely my opinion and based on observation from the outside looking in. I do not live in the US. All of this remains a simplified abstraction of a complex network of patterns and interactions between those patterns.
Oh right. So that makes it okay!
At the same time it seems his intuition is driving Trump. I don’t believe at all in any “master plan”. There is just too much echoing in his head, empty as it is. Influential, rich “friends” are the ones who got “yippy”.
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You poor Euros and others, you just don't see the full picture. Over here in the US we are lucky to be encouraged by Trump's many daily TV commercials telling us that the pain will be short lived and that we will "win".
OK, that was totally sarcastic, but the BS propaganda that he is putting out here is real and constant. As far as I can tell no one but existing MAGAs buys any of this nonsense.
OK, that was totally sarcastic, but the BS propaganda that he is putting out here is real and constant. As far as I can tell no one but existing MAGAs buys any of this nonsense.
It's a shame, the good people from the US don't deserve this. It is so surreal, but the actions are also very surreal. Never heard so much anti-USA sentiment, OK the only USA cars people bought were typically Tesla's, and they are being cancelled left right and centre. Friends are cancelling and changing their holiday projects. Business wise, I'm being asked for an impact statement on the USA tech reliance, and praised where no reliance can be demonstrated. It feels like Microsoft, Apple, and Google are the main ones transcending all this nonsense. But smaller service providers will start to feel it big time once contracts are up for renewal.
It is all so unnecessary and based on nothing but lies and populism. A great lesson (albeit a costly one) that you can't operate a government like a business, and that diplomacy is actually a valuable commodity.
Going back on agreements made, and mis-representing them is not something the world will easily forget and makes the USA a very unreliable partner. All this chatter about "they need us more", or "we are bigger", "we are richer", you name it. It was always obnoxious, and often the reason the reactions some Americans get when going abroad. It is classless behaviour, even when true. But combine it with the lies, and having it exclaimed in areas where it is verifiably untrue does not sit well with international cultures.
Tough times ahead.
Utter fiction from the echo chamber of right wing media that you rely on.
Even if he did crash it on purpose, anyone can cash in on that, not just "his friends". Anyone with a brain knows to buy stock up when it drops like this. You act like it was some secret mission that none of us idiot, common people could take advantage of.
No? I don't even buy eggs, so I don't care. Plus, they aren't even expensive here.Touched a sore point?
Says it all, I guess 🤣 Do you have one on your head, Cocky?
I think I'll wear my USA Flag socks today ..
Should help with "vibes" going into the weekend.
Trying to do my part to "make it great again"
