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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump & Musk Are Engineering a Recession: Why Billionaires Profit When America's Economy Crashes
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Trump & Musk Are Engineering a Recession: Why Billionaires Profit When America's Economy Crashes (Original Post)
DSandra
Nov 2024
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no_hypocrisy
(54,063 posts)1. I'd add Putin to the Committee
Wingus Dingus
(9,173 posts)2. Elon Musk said this, and I didn't hear much about it since.
I mean, what an insane thing to say--to admit you're going to tank the economy and we'll all live under hardship (well, not him and Trump, but the rest of us...) and yet I heard so little about it.
durablend
(8,846 posts)4. Because he'll deny he ever said it
orthoclad
(4,728 posts)7. "Austerity for thee, riches for me"
louis-t
(24,564 posts)3. They learned 15 years ago. Crash Real Estate, buy 1,000,000 houses
at pennies on the dollar.
orthoclad
(4,728 posts)6. Buying opportunity, then corner the market
That's why housing is so ridiculous now.
onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)5. They get to buy what we worked for cheap unlike us.
Then try to sell it back to us at prices we cant afford.
orthoclad
(4,728 posts)8. That's why there's alway a recession
when right-wingers hold the helm.
lame54
(39,089 posts)9. Predatory Greed...
So gross
It's not enough to have it all. Others must suffer.
cynical_idealist
(514 posts)10. Their primary policy is always: FSU
then the usual lie, cheat and STEAL