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enid602

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9. inflation

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 10, 2020, 11:02 AM

Apr 2020

Trump actually spent a trillion in 2018 trying to prop up the bond market. And another trill in 2019. Plus this 7 or so trill in 2020. He's just printing money.

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