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  • Goldman Sachs expects aggressive duties from the White House to raise inflation and unemployment and drag economic growth to a near-standstill.
  • In a note Sunday, the firm said “we continue to believe the risk from April 2 tariffs is greater than many market participants have previously assumed.”
  • The firm raised its forecast for inflation this year to 3.5%, cut its GDP outlook to just 1% and raised its unemployment view to 4.5%.
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    And that’s without taking into account the crashes to come when there will be a correction after all the shady stuff done by the financial sector when there no longer is any agency capable of supervising them. That will likely have planetary repercussions,.

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      or the persistent international distrust Trump has carved towards the USA for decades to come

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    When the rich people are now questioning the other rich people, you know shit isn’t exactly going to plan.

    At least not the plan some of the rich thought they were getting. They forgot to factor in the incompetence.

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        You are both correct.
        tRUMP is clearly, clearly an idiot. However his glorious leader, putin, must be considered brilliant to do what he’s done.
        He’s completely evil, etc, but he can die happy knowing of the damage he’s done to the USA (and other countries) will be felt for decades.

        I hate them both with a passion, but you’ve got to give credit where it is due.

        (He’s also damaged Russia for decades to come)

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    Economists do not usually speak in black and white terms like this.

    Our economy is in for a bloodletting.

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        They might go to war against the leaders within the country instead. Trump is really playing with fire here, messing with the gun-toting constituents of his.

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          Nah, just say that Hussein Obama did it or something stupid like that, say it’s open season on the treacherous libs and they’ll happily make another Kristallnacht because that is how stupid they are. They’ll follow Cheeto straight into hell and then he’ll abandon them there and they’ll still blame Obama because please do not expect these people to have a shred of dignity to say “I was wrong”

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          Revolutions need organization. Organization needs third spaces were people can meet, discuss, and organize. Most of the US has basically no third spaces outside of churches, and this is very much by design.

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              clearly, Fauci created COVID which is a bioweapon that isn’t serious enough to employ biodefense measures against including barriers (masking) and immunizations (vaccinate), but serious enough to have triggered a recession that the present trump slump is fixing, etc. So yeah clearly Fauci’s fault.

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      Crash the economy and stock prices. Create a forever war for profiteering. Stick dissidents and the poor into for profit prisons. Consolidate more wealth at the top. The system is working as designed.

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    Even now we could stop doing idiotic things and we might recover in a few years? But if we continue, we’ll run out of every single company’s rainy day fund. At that point in the not too distant future we’ll start seeing one no-name company go belly up. Then a few days later two, then the next day ten, then 200. Finally we’ll be in a deepest recession ever. People will be jumping out of buildings.

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      I mean lots of companies are declaring bankruptcy already

      • forever21
      • 23andMe
      • hooters
      • party city (2024)
      • joann
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        How many of those have been because they’ve been sucked dry by private equity?

        Not that Trump is blameless, but I’d expect the casualties of his sabotage to take longer to surface.

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          Seriously, all of those companies listed have various quality issues that seem to stem for poor policy and a ‘profit at all cost’ mentality.

          Ever been to a hooters that didn’t have a parking lot that was falling apart, or tables and machines that look to have been needing repairs for years? The details might not matter to every consumer, but I know I’d rather visit the restaurant that at least tries to keep up appearances.

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            Wow I’d never considered that with Hooters but now that you mention it, every Hooters I’ve been in (only 2 of them) has been kind of dark and dirty looking like a 1980s era Pizza Hut.

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    Glad to know that GS is catching up with every other financial advisor and most of the logical everyday people who understand that making things more expensive tends to make people’s financial situation worse.

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    I bet before the end of the day we’ll hear about how Goldman Sachs, of all places, is full of RADICAL LIBERALS and has gone WOKE!

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    This is entirely a self-own by donvict and his stupid sycophants. He was handed an economy that had so many great indicators and within mere weeks, was able to fuck it up.

    Heckuva job, donnie.

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      Sabotaging the US economy and destroying the power of the US and EU were the jobs Trump was put in to do.

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    The trump regime was designed to TANK the US economy so that stocks, businesses, and industries can be bought by billionaires at rock bottom prices.

    All is going according to plan.

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    Trump is trying to harm the economy of all the allies of USA, because reasons.
    The strategy is to commit economic suicide, to prove the dependency on USA.

    The plan is flawless if you don’t give a shit about anything, except creating attention for yourself.

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      More and more I feel like he’s just trying to get us embroiled in something that provides cover for him to ratchet into the next slot of dictator. If he can get a real crisis on his hands he’s plausibly cleared for all sorts of seemingly desperate measures. Such as third terms, and criminalization of “sentiments” (“doesn’t like me” turns into “supports the enemy”, opposition turns into enemy, temporary emergency actions turn into permanent dictatorship).

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      The plan is flawless if you don’t give a shit about anything, except creating wealth and power for yourself.