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The Trade War Is Already Having A Huge Impact On The US Economy
The trade war has barely just begun, and yet significant ripple effects are already being felt all across the U.S. economy. Once thriving businesses are on the verge of failure, workers are being laid off, and some sectors of the economy are witnessing enormous price hikes. Right now the mainstream media is absolutely fixated on the drama surrounding the recently concluded Trump-Putin summit meeting, but the consequences of this trade war will ultimately be far more important for the lives of most ordinary Americans. As more tariffs continue to be implemented, this will perhaps be the biggest disruption to the global economic system that we have seen in decades. Perhaps you have not been affected personally yet, but for many Americans this trade war has changed everything. For example, just consider the plight of soybean farmer Tim Bardole
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We'll be lucky if Trumps idiocy doesn't cause another depression.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)it's clearly evident. And it's been escalating since this boob (no offense to boobs) got in office. As if him getting elected...made everyone 1000-aires.
moondust
(20,371 posts)We're all gonna be hundredaires!!!!
(They taught me to dream big.)
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)returned from the Grocery. Paper Products are up by ten percent since last month. What I did notice was,Meat items from Canada are not being stocked. No more Maple Leaf Bacon,and this Retailer does not handle Hormel Black Label. So we do with out,will not go to WalMart or anyone else.
anarch
(6,536 posts)stemming from this demented moron and his idiotic accomplices' misguided and foolish economic "policies." In quotes because I don't believe any of them have really thought this through.
If you're V. Putin or one of his oligarchs, you're probably pretty pleased with yourself right about now, what with all the impending doom for the entirety of the U.S. and E.U. economic landscape...if you're anyone else, if you're not horrified by our prospects, well I don't know what to tell you.
Oh, the super-rich will be fine...some of them will likely profit from the misfortune of, you know, everyone else.
Just ask fuckface himself...if I recall correctly, he benefitted from the last recession, and bragged about it.
The irony in all this for me is that I might support some sort of protective tariff structure, if it were reasonably thought out, and if it would actually benefit the American working class...but basically nobody in this administration seems interested in that sort of thing.