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Daleuhlmann

(618 posts) Fri Mar 14, 2025, 09:02 PM Mar 2025

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"Prosperity Is Just Around the Corner"--Yeah, Right!

Last edited Fri Mar 14, 2025, 11:40 PM - Edit history (1)

How did that work out for Herbert Hoover?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/13/treasury-secretary-bessent-said-the-white-house-is-focused-on-the-real-economy-and-not-concerned-about-a-little-market-volatility.html

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"Prosperity Is Just Around the Corner"--Yeah, Right! (Original Post) Daleuhlmann Mar 2025 OP

"long term wealth" for already-rich assholes is what he means Skittles Mar 2025 #1

And when, in early 2020, he said that Coivid-19 would be gone in a week? How did that go? Hundreds of fierywoman Mar 2025 #2

I am down 10-15% stoned Mar 2025 #3

Skittles

(172,907 posts)

1. "long term wealth" for already-rich assholes is what he means

Reply to Daleuhlmann (Original post)

Fri Mar 14, 2025, 09:10 PM

Mar 2025

FUCK him

fierywoman

(8,632 posts)

2. And when, in early 2020, he said that Coivid-19 would be gone in a week? How did that go? Hundreds of

Reply to Daleuhlmann (Original post)

Fri Mar 14, 2025, 09:14 PM

Mar 2025

thousands of dead Americans later...

stoned

(334 posts)

3. I am down 10-15%

Reply to Daleuhlmann (Original post)

Fri Mar 14, 2025, 09:33 PM

Mar 2025

but have also been buying the dips all week.

I measure the market in years, not days.

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