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The Post-Election, Post-Inaguration Trump Economic Malaise is getting worse.
See, it really doesn't matter that most of Trump's big "Day One" Tariffs, Tariffs and More Tariffs campaign promises never materialized or were slapped back by other countries.
The mere constant blather about them was enough to set the American economic decline Trump and President Musk apparently are squirreling for in motion:
[B]Consumer inflation fears spike in February as tariff worries hit sentiment.[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/consumer-inflation-fears-spike-in-february-as-tariff-worries-hit-sentiment.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]The University of Michigan consumer survey showed that respondents expect inflation a year from now to be 4.3%, a 1 percentage point jump from January and the highest since November 2023.
Worries over inflation dovetailed with lower optimism overall, as the headline index fell to 67.8, a one-month drop of 4.6% and an 11.8% move lower from the same month a year ago.
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Consumers grew dramatically more worried about near-term inflation as President Donald Trump pushed aggressive tariffs against major U.S. trading partners, a closely watched survey showed Friday.
The University of Michigan consumer survey for February showed that respondents expect the inflation rate a year from now to be 4.3%, a 1 percentage point jump from January and the highest level since November 2023.
Though Trump postponed tariffs against Canada and Mexico, the looming threat of price pass-throughs to consumers shook sentiment. China has levied retaliatory tariffs following Trumps move. The survey window ran from Jan. 21, the day after Trump took office, to Feb. 3.
Many consumers appear worried that high inflation will return within the next year, said Joanne Hsu, the surveys director. This is only the fifth time in 14 years we have seen such a large one-month rise (one percentage point or more) in year-ahead inflation expectations.
Longer-run expectations werent hit as much, with the five-year outlook drifting up to 3.3%, a 0.1 percentage point gain.
Worries over inflation dovetailed with lower optimism overall, as the headline index fell to 67.8, a one-month drop of 4.6% and an 11.8% move lower from the same month a year ago. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for a reading of 71.3.
The survey sometimes is influenced by shifting political winds. However, Hsu noted that declining sentiment was pervasive, with Republicans, Independents, and Democrats all posting sentiment declines from January, along with consumers across age and wealth groups.[/QUOTE]Assuring weirdly nervous MAGAs about the certainty of the genitals they were born with being verified "by law" doesn't seem to be cheering them up about what is to come under this new administration.
Where's the proof in the pudding?
[QUOTE=Sirioja;2980711] I can send You my official by government technical control with 0% CO2 , surprising me for a so powerful V8 Audi when I increased power.[/QUOTE][I][b](...kkkk!)[/b][/I] "E85 and technical control with 0% CO2. " zero emissions. Oh right. That must be something like the perpetual motion engine! [I][b](...kkkk!)[/b][/I].
Sirioja, perhaps you should also get back to me when you've something more interesting than your so called [i]"E85 and technical control with 0% CO2"[/i], zero emissions, nonsense!
Wokeism: defending the irrational and the hypocritical
[QUOTE=Xpartan;2981536]1) You just need to get into your skull that this is not your damn business. It's their bodies, not yours. It will get easier after finally get that.
2) As to sport competitions, I used to think along the same lines until another member presented persuading arguments in this very thread. Search for our conversations. The number of transsexual athletes is miniscule and their effects on competitions are non-existent. That's another ideological nothing-sandwiich designed to scare their flock.
3)You called Eih a Marxist. From what I can see, he doesn't resemble a Marxist at all. The man seems to have done quite well for himself, and he also seems to be living a dream. Perhaps, you (just like most of your ideological comrades) simply don't understand what Marxists are. That's fine because I do. [/QUOTE]1) I don't give a damn what consenting ADULTS want to do their bodies unless they want me to pay for their operations with my hard-earned tax dollars. But you are avoiding the main issue: WHEN ADULTS MUTILATE A CHILDS BODY! Duh! The thing about children is that they are innocent beings and will believe what adults tell them. So, it is very, very wrong (fascistic) and a form of child abuse to "groom" children. "Leave our kids alone!" [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs35t2xFqdU&t=154s[/URL].
2) You are absolutely out of your fucking mind if you think it is alright for men to compete in women's sports at any level or share bathrooms with underage high school girls. What the fuck is wrong with you? Any third rate male boxer will destroy even the best female boxer. DUH!
3) This is exactly the hypocrisy that I am pointing out. One's real politics is not found in the stupid shit people say, but in how they live their lives. BKK Bob will bore you to death with his left-wing BS pendantory, but he lives his life financially speaking as Capitalist and socially as a Libertarian. This is complete hypocrisy. You ever hear the expression "Do As I Say, Not As I Do"? If you need help understanding this, it means: that a speakers actions speak louder than his words, so pay attention to what he does not what he says.
Finally, it is only in the stupid precincts of Left Wing Western political thought (of the 21st century) that people like you think men can be woman and vice versa. Have you ever been to Thailand? Katoeys have been in the royal court for a thousand years or longer. I think the Thais have a firmer grip on reality than idiot leftwingers in the USA. Go to Soi Sukhumvit on any night and talk to some Ladyboy SW's. They won't bite unless you want them to. Ask them if they are girls or not. Their almost universal answer to that question should enlighten you. The Japanese have it straight too. Ha Ha, pun intended. Ladyboys in Japan are referred to as "Newhalfs". So, if trannys want to compete in sporting events no one is preventing them from organizing their own leagues and competing amoung themselves. If people want to watch them compete in these sporting events these leagues will prosper. That is the American way! Duh.
Why do Wingers focus so much on trannies' genitals instead of the economy?
Really, this constant, never-ending Repub / Winger / MAGA obsession and focus on trannies, imaginary child cannibalism, child mutilation, child blood-drinking, well, so many obsessive thoughts about children children children in general, what genitals the person in the toilet stall next to them were born with, what is the definition of their own genitals, mythical "wokeism" and on and on instead of how their economic policies and stewardship have produced every Great Depression, Great Recession and Massive Historic Jobs Destruction of the past 100 years and none of the Historic Economic Recoveries. Expansions and Jobs Creation is just getting monotonous.
And, as usual, their rather weird sexual and, well, inappropriate age-related sexual obsessions do nothing particularly positive for the stock market either.
[B]Stuck stock market is worried about economic growth.
Feb. 8, 2025[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/08/stuck-stock-market-is-worried-about-economic-growth-as-trumps-tariffs-dominate-headlines.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]Yet day to day, the many-forked path of policy-setting involving tariffs, immigration crackdowns, executive-branch program curbs and, eventually, a tax-and-spending package has sapped market confidence in an imminent economic acceleration.
Many of the textbook Trump trades pricing in a strong growth impulse driving a higher-nominal-growth economy have largely unwound. The small-cap Russell 2000 has rolled back to mid-October levels. And as shown here, the beloved industrial sector has also slid back relative to the broader market.
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Its tough to deny that the clench-and-release of tariff threats is the proximate mover of tactical trading flows and the public mood. The S&P 500 low for last week came less than an hour after Mondays opening bell, when 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico were freshly imposed. A 3% multi-day relief rally from there eventually took the S&P 500 to a high right at 6,100 upside resistance unless and until proven otherwise on Friday morning.
That was just before the University of Michigan consumer survey showed a big jump in one-year inflation expectations, almost certainly tied to tariff fears, with stocks legging lower still after President Trump vowed reciprocal tariffs on countries now imposing duties on U.S. goods. Stocks fell 1% from there into the weekly close.
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A tariff conflict, rather, is treated by the market as a war of choice that might have positive eventual objectives but in the here and now threatens to throw sand in the gears of commerce and kick dust into the eyes of CEOs and capital allocators.[/QUOTE]This is why Social Issues, politically, are for Suckers.
Snap out of it, you Repubs / Wingers / MAGAs! Try to concentrate on issues that matter and over which the politicians we vote for definitely have some influence and control! Not on Social Issue junk that will move along with the times, the culture and what free human beings are drawn to anyway regardless who we vote for.
The Social Issues that keep you people tossing and turning with obsessive worry in your bed every night will go the direction society wants them to go even if you election 5 Ronald Reagans followed by 5 Donald Trumps in a row over the next 2-3 generations.
I thought you Repubs / Wingers / MAGAs were supposed to be "pro business", supporters of Capitalism, free trade and THE ECONOMY. There is an awful lot of lip-service dedicated to creating that highly dubious impression at least.
Then when are you going to start acting like it, stop obsessing over your and everyone else's genitals and, most importantly, start voting for presidents and congresses that know how to build an "Envy of the World" Economy rather than finding new and unprecedented ways to Crash the Economy?
Of course, that would require you to vote for Dems instead of Repubs. But, hey, think of how much better you will feel and sleep at night to know the people you voted for are not even half as obsessed with trannies' and children's genitals as you and your fellow Repubs / Wingers / MAGAs are!
