15 minutes ago, Mike_Hunt said:

Most people think the POTUS wakes up every morning and heads to the basement to look at steam gauges and adjust dials to adjust economy. 

No, most people think Trump wakes up every morning and does frack all.

7 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

I get so sick of this back and forth senseless BS.

So what does anyone consider a credible news source?

They are all credible, but they are all biased, some more than others. 

 

They are also for-profit businesses.  

 

 

2 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

No, most people think Trump wakes up every morning and does frack all.

You're thinking of Biden. Did you read your hero's book? 

2 hours ago, BLMFem said:

 

So you copy and paste without a link. Dishonest and against forum rules.

Who made you the Sheriff

Ted is not wrong.

 

 

 

 

Just now, flexomike said:

Who made you the Sheriff

 

He was deputy, but someone shot the sheriff........

Total "BS", the US markets are "UP" and next year they are forecast to be even higher. Just check your 401K's. Good Luck.

Offensive meme removed

 

@darbie-foos

Lower economic growth is an international trend, and as for inflation, well, those high import duties for everything from around the world probably don't help... 😆 

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

So, have all you leftists gotten out of the market and converted everything to Yuan and the Hang Seng?

They all said they were dumping their portfolios when the tariff mkt crash was happening. Bloomin fools if you ask me dumping at the bottom of a swing, but thats irrational hatred for you!

Glad i went allin during the lefts mass panic - sitting on yuuuuuge paper profits. Cheers tards for the opp😅

4 minutes ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Lower economic growth is an international trend, and as for inflation, well, those high import duties for everything from around the world probably don't help... 😆 

While world economy growth is trending down, the US seems to be trending up. 

 

40 minutes ago, Mike_Hunt said:

Joe Biden pushed inflation with his massive spending after the massive COVID spending. 

 

Inflation was a world-wide phenomenon. No major country was immune.

 

Funnily enough, just as Biden's term ended, The Economist wrote that the American economy "was the envy of the world".  DT's tariffs soon fixed that.

1 hour ago, Wingate said:

Reading comprehension is obviously not your strong suit.

 

I have reported that Trump's "Best Economy EVAH"...before Covid...was in the bottom 30% of all economies (per GDP change) since the end of WWII.

 

Bottom 30%, while not a Depression, is hardly "best ever". That's was just Trumpian hyperbole.

 

It is also true that Trump was the first POTUS to leave office with fewer Americans employed than when he entered since Herbert Hoover.

 

Trump also presided over a 41% increase in the total National Debt, adding $8,400,000,000,000 to what the previous 44 Presidents had presided over in the previous 240 years.

 

Finally, not a single Republican President ever has NOT presided over the start of a Recession. Trump took Obama's growing economy and 4.8% Unemployment and left Biden a Recession and 6.8% Unemployment.

No mate. You repeatedly claimed Trump 1.0 PRE COVID caused a crash the same or worse than the 1930 s Great Depression. Not surprised you are trying to backpeddle as it was an utterly insane claim - which the rubes couldnt get enough of.

Well at least we are ALL -including yourself, the author of the silly claims, agreeing it was BS. Progress🤣

3 hours ago, BLMFem said:

So all indicators point to a worsening economy. It's so bad that not even Fox can hide it! Inflation is up, prices are up, property market in the stink.

And while all this takes place Trump is focusing on the Epstein ballroom. Great work, MAGA fanboys!😆

 

 

 

 

The latest inflation data was exactly the fuel stocks needed to close at fresh all-time highs

https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-today-inflation-data-cpi-sp500-record-high-economy-2025-10

 

"Worsening economy" You must be joking or suffering from the "syndrome." Yesterday, the stock market closed at fresh all-time highs. This does not happen when the economy is suffering. More proof that President Trump is making American Great Again. 

3 minutes ago, novanova said:

 

Inflation was a world-wide phenomenon. No major country was immune.

 

Funnily enough, just as Biden's term ended, The Economist wrote that the American economy "was the envy of the world".  DT's tariffs soon fixed that.

Joe Biden pushed inflation 

 

Joe Biden is more responsible for high inflation than for abundant jobs

The main effect of the president’s economic policies has been to boost prices

 

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/05/11/joe-biden-is-more-responsible-for-high-inflation-than-for-abundant-jobs

31 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

He was deputy, but someone shot the sheriff........

Great song!

The stable genius with another winning move!

 

 

 

 

2 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

The stable genius with another winning move!

 

 

 

 

"OTTAWA — Ontario is hitting pause on its short-lived anti-tariff television ad campaign in the United States on Monday so that Canada-U.S. trade talks can resume, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday."

 

Ontario will pull ads that triggered Trump in order to restart trade talks, Ford says | Financial Post

https://financialpost.com/pmn/ontario-will-pull-ads-that-triggered-trump-in-order-to-restart-trade-talks-ford-says-3

20 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

They all said they were dumping their portfolios when the tariff mkt crash was happening. Bloomin fools if you ask me dumping at the bottom of a swing, but thats irrational hatred for you!

Glad i went allin during the lefts mass panic - sitting on yuuuuuge paper profits. 

If I had a $ for every time one of the savvy MAGA investors on this forums has said this......

4 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

"OTTAWA — Ontario is hitting pause on its short-lived anti-tariff television ad campaign in the United States on Monday so that Canada-U.S. trade talks can resume, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday."

 

Ontario will pull ads that triggered Trump in order to restart trade talks, Ford says | Financial Post

https://financialpost.com/pmn/ontario-will-pull-ads-that-triggered-trump-in-order-to-restart-trade-talks-ford-says-3

 

And heeeere's Yellow, completely missing the point again and again and again and again!😆

14 minutes ago, Mike_Hunt said:

Joe Biden pushed inflation 

 

Joe Biden is more responsible for high inflation than for abundant jobs

The main effect of the president’s economic policies has been to boost prices

 

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/05/11/joe-biden-is-more-responsible-for-high-inflation-than-for-abundant-jobs

 

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/04/05/five-crazy-trump-tariffs-you-wouldnt-believe

 

DONALD TRUMP’S tariff announcement on April 2nd has drawn mockery for its spurious maths. Any bilateral trade deficit is treated as gross unfairness; the tariffs are set by taking the measure as a share of goods imported from each country, and halving it. But there are other oddities too, from the fact that the tariff rates appear to be calculated for places with an internet domain name to the fact that they are based on a single year of data. The starkest demonstration of the absurdity of the tariffs is to look at the bizarre outcomes they produce...

2 hours ago, novanova said:

 

Shame on you for such blatant cherry-picking. 2022 inflation was driven my supply-chain disruption. Inflation now is driven my DT;'s fatuous tariffs. DT knows nothing about economics, and should have left matters to knowledgeable, experienced advisors, not a bunch of toadies and yes-men

Shame? Complete silliness and no shame for a put-down of the failed policies of that joke of a Biden administration. You should be reminded that it was the Biden administration policies that exacerbated labor shortages, inflation, and logistical bottlenecks with the extended unemployment benefits stimulus payments, paying people not to work incentivizing people to stay home, leading to severe labor shortages in key supply chain sectors. And the stupid misguided policies of vaccine mandates of federal workers and contractors that further caused worker shortages and further exacerbated supply chain issues. But you wouldn’t know any of this because the media has high jacked your mind in a vice and wrecked your impression of reality.

8 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

If I had a $ for every time one of the savvy MAGA investors on this forums has said this......

I posted it at the time on this forum. A million baht bet awaits if you want to go down that route??🤣

28 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

While world economy growth is trending down, the US seems to be trending up. 

 

Still doing better than the 'rest', yes...

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/24/investing/us-stock-market

I'm ready for the big crash, early next year. Buy gold.

2 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

"On election night, as markets plunged in initial reaction to the Trump victory, Krugman wrote, "If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never". The prediction proved incorrect as the market recovered and continued a bull run.

 

 

As others, he was sometimes right and sometimes wrong.

 

However, the K-shaped expansion is not a prediction, it is currently happening.

 

"The U.S. economy is pulling apart: Booming for some, breaking for many.

In other words, it’s looking K-shaped — one branch climbs while the other falls.

For those on the upper arm, things are going well. The top 10% of U.S. households now account for nearly half of all consumer spending, buoyed by record stock market highs. Hourly pay is now rising fastest for the highest earners, reversing a pandemic-era trend that favored the lowest-paid workers, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

 

Meanwhile, those on the lower arm are feeling the squeeze. Grocery prices recently posted their fastest monthly increase in nearly three years, the job market is cooling and more subprime borrowers are falling behind on their car loans."

https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/your-money/america-k-shaped-economy/

1 minute ago, candide said:

As others, he was sometimes right and sometimes wrong.

 

However, the K-shaped expansion is not a prediction, it is currently happening.

 

"The U.S. economy is pulling apart: Booming for some, breaking for many.

In other words, it’s looking K-shaped — one branch climbs while the other falls.

For those on the upper arm, things are going well. The top 10% of U.S. households now account for nearly half of all consumer spending, buoyed by record stock market highs. Hourly pay is now rising fastest for the highest earners, reversing a pandemic-era trend that favored the lowest-paid workers, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

 

Meanwhile, those on the lower arm are feeling the squeeze. Grocery prices recently posted their fastest monthly increase in nearly three years, the job market is cooling and more subprime borrowers are falling behind on their car loans."

https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/your-money/america-k-shaped-economy/

Everyone is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. Krugman is a "world renowned" economist, yet he seems to be wrong, a lot more than he's right. 

 

I do not think the tariffs are a good idea. I have made that clear. 

 

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

It's silly to link macro economic cycles and problems to a current president to begin with, these issues exist and keep existing until they are solved. Virtually the only solution to that is a major global economic crisis and collapse. 

 

How dare you post such a reasonable reply in a sea of insanity.

The boneheads see the Dow as a measure the economic well-being of citizens.
Quite the opposite — it represents the market value of corporations, and people like Trump and the oligarchs.

I love the poorly educated! — DJT 2016