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So that’s it – over a century of economic policy dumped in a ditch for no coherent reason,
Also, the patient is going to be … bigger? Was the surgery a penis enhancement?”
Boy, I feel so much better now,
What are we getting in return for all this economic pain?”
Trump is just picking a fight with the rest of the world. That’s all he’s doing,
THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE.”
Specifically, Trump posted on Truth Social They do it to us so we do it to them. Very simple.”
Nevertheless, Trump called the tariffs “reciprocal” meaning There was an irreconcilable contradiction between Trump’s two big campaign promises, imposing tariffs and bringing down costs,
One bit of good news coming out of all this: it’s all pretty solid proof that there is no deep state,
I think it’s going very well,
It’s madness, it’s irrational, it’s mafia-style governance designed to bully the world into submission,
Economists say we could be on the verge of a recession, so things are looking scary right now,
It is no longer inconceivable that in a bigger negotiation this could serve as a nuclear threat,
Spyros Andreopoulos, founder of the Thin Ice Macroeconomics consultancy, said I think that's a really unlikely scenario,
Maurice Obstfeld, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said I could well imagine that Mr. Trump...grows frustrated and he does try to implement wacky ideas, even if the logic for them is not there,
said Barry Eichengreen, professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley That the U.S. has turned hostile is a huge setback,
Maria Demertzis, chief economist for Europe at the Conference Board think tank, said The prices are going to go up, and the prices that DOD has to pay are going to go up,
There’s going to be shortages of supplies, tit-for-tats, and our allies and other partners are going to retaliate,
said Bill Greenwalt, a former Pentagon acquisition official We have requirements and we’re going to do what makes sense for us,
said a diplomat from a NATO country, who like others, was granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive political issue There are simply not enough people in the aerospace and defense sector to meet the current need,
Dak Hardwick, vice president of international affairs at the Aerospace Industries Association told a meeting of American and European defense executives on Thursday