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[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3007104]Musk leaving the Trump Whitehouse is a win/win situation for everyone![/QUOTE]The Model why is in production and on showroom floors. France is the second larges EV market in the EU.
[B]Tesla Sales in France Fall to Three-Year Low.[/B]
[URL]https://youtu.be/97JlliuODPA?si=xvY36mOPe61pFvhs[/URL]
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3007077]Just stop. There is not a Republican I know against immigration. We want the best people the world has to offer. Our country is made up of immigrants. We Republicans want hard working people who thrive when given freedom. We just want the people who come in to be vetted.
What makes us sick is I know a guy who waited years to enter the country legally while these fucking Salvadoran gang members walked right in. The guy I know is extremely productive and is a net positive to our economy and has created jobs.
There is a little difference between him and the illegals who rape, pillage, and steal, and it is disgusting to put him in the same group as those gang members.
And you do not know if the apples are good or bad until they are examined, and you Democratic douches are not doing that. You guys who live abroad do not care jack shit about what these immigrants are really like as long as they vote Democrat.[/QUOTE]First of all I don't consider myself a Democrat. They are center right at best when it comes to the economy and I'm slightly to the right of Lenin. I'm all for a proper guest worker program that is enacted and actually functions, but it seems to me that both parties don't really want to solve the issue, the Democrats want an open border, and the Republicans want to close the border, both want to keep it a political hot potato so that they can use it to stop every election cycle. This is the inherent problem with American politics where he only have two viable parties.
First of all I don't consider myself a Democrat.
[QUOTE=EihTooms;3006908]The idea that the USA's involvement in WWII "pulled us out of the Great Repub Depression" is a long-held precious myth. Not so. The economy and jobs creation was doing quite well in the years prior to December 7, 1941. There had been a mild pull back on the post-Great Repub Depression recovery in 1937 but it got back on track quickly by1938,1939, 1940 and 1941. If anything, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor followed by Germany declaring War on us a couple of weeks later, requiring us to direct industrial production to the war effort, put FDR's much more economically viable projects on hold, among them his Interstate Highway plan. And, in fact, the USA suffered a sizable Recession DURING WWII.
GW Bush plunged us into TWO wars and his ecinomy was total crap.
Trump happily presided over the War in Afghanistan for every hour of every day of his 1st term so-called presidency and wound up producing The Worst Economic and Jobs Creation Results since Repub Herbert Hoover and the Great Repub Depression.
That includes the crap economic and jobs creation results in the 3 years prior to Trump's Pandemic where his one and only economic "stimulus" legislation added Trillions to the deficit while producing a Million FEWER jobs with it than without it, his first failed tariff and trade war with China plunging American farmers and the manufacturing industry into Recessions so deep he had to issue emergency welfare checks just to keep them afloat, we had a Bear Market decline in the broad USA Stock market even before his much deeper one during Trump's Pandemic, etc, etc, etc. Meanwhile, Repub GW Bush's War in Afghanistan raged on and on all through his first term, leaving the most difficult withdrawal part to Biden well after Trump left office, and it did not contribute one iota of positive economic data to mitigate Trump's disastrous 1st term economy.
So, if you are looking for a pattern in the economic boom times vs the historic downturns throughout American history, "Going to War" is not a factor in any boom times pattern.
However, the most predictable, reliable and consistent pattern for at least the past 100 years has been that economic boom times and historic jobs creation happen under Dem Presidents while Great Depressions, Great Recessions and historic jobs loses happen under Repub so-called presidents.
That has been a pattern you could have bet the farm on every time over the past 100 years or so and never lost it once.[/QUOTE]You tell about whole economics, when I mean USA make big money from wars, selling weapons and services. Furthermore with Trump asking twice what was given. USA even instructed Bin Laden.
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3007106]Those are great links, MDS. Yeah, you know it really is amazing how many people have fallen for the China bullshit. I was talking to a girl from Vietnam. I mentioned to her Putin saying China has historically not expanded beyond its borders, and she said that China fucks with Vietnam all the time, and they are looking to expand there. It was nice talking to someone who gets it on China. A lot of companies have pulled out of China and gone to Vietnam as labor is cheaper there which has pissed China off.
Peter Zeihan, the CIA backed futurist, has said the average Mexican worker is more productive than the Canadian one now and that Mexico is actually a lower cost producer than China. Thing is they are going to run into a demographic based problem as well, so they will be opening their doors to Central and South Americans. When we have this immigrant caravans coming in from Mexico, I would be shocked if they do not pluck off the most productive people and leave us with the scum. They should do that.
Thing is we restrict a lot of countries in the Americas from coming to the USA visa free. Oh yeah, the Salvadoran gangs can come and go, but the South American citizens with money and want to travel legally are put through hell. With most South American countries, Mexico allows them to come in visa free. Thing is when I would fly my women there if they did not have money or I was dumb enough not to give it to them, Mexico would not let them in, so I learned that lession. However, if you do have money, Mexico is like Hola Amigo! That is so much smarter than what we are doing.
And you know that stupid train to nowhere in California we spent billions on and they have laid like 10 miles of track. Well, Mexico has built high speed rail around the entire Yucutan Penisula in like the last two years. I have not ridden it but my gal and her daughter did and they loved it.
One of the many reasons the war on drugs is such a fucking joke is you can walk across the border and buy whatever drugs you want. There was a pharmacy I know that was selling Fentanyl and offered me a sample. LOL. It is so stupid. You can bring like a month supply of whatever controlled substance you want. American customs will ask if it is for personal use and when you say yes, they let you through and of course, Mexico do not have the opioid crisis we do. Anyone can buy safe drugs there at a pharmacy. For too many Americans, they have to buy their opioids on the street and do not know what they are getting.
Prohibition showed us the answer with alcohol is that you make it cheap, safe, and plentiful. People think opioids are different but they really are not. The same part of the brain light up with booze as they do with opioids at least in alcoholics, and the drugs used for opioid overdoses and use disorder, nalaxone and naltrexone, are used to treat alcoholism. Our government makes so many decisions based on drugs and so much money in the drug trade, I do not think they will ever be legal, and I kind of want that because if we did that, the Mexican cartels would no longer exist, and I think the Mexican drug cartels keep the Mexican government honest.
As long as the cartels have a say, there is going to be no banning of prostitution. Of all the countries I went to during the pandemic, the one with the most common sense laws was Mexico. They are not like the USA which will sacrifice any kind of fun for safety. I have had more fun there than any other country in the world. If the Mexican government gets too big for its britches, the cartels stand up to them. And when the cartels get out of control, the government steps in.
What cracks me up is people think China is so safe and Latin America is so dangerous. They gave the world Covid, you dumb asses. Then there is the crime in Mexico and the Latin nations right? As your links point out, the Latin nations are amateurs with stealing compared to China. While there are a billion Chinese, there are 600 million people in Latin America.
Why we are neglecting our Christian neighbors and putting all this money into Godless China is beyond me. I do not get it. I do not know what the USA needs that the Americas does not have. Do you?[/QUOTE]Yes I wouldn't completely be against making one country from the top of Canada to the bottom of Tierra del Fuego or maybe something like the EUs Schengen zone? Maybe free trade and free movement?
And Free Trade with, the EU and Asia Fuck them.
I love South America, espec Lima and Colombia all during the CCP flu I had the most incredible time in MDE and Bogota of anyone on the planet jajajaja!! It truly was fucking INSANE.
Mexico was amazing pre- CCP flu, I think the flu messed up the mongering scene these days.
Have you spent any time in Lima? OMG the food the people the weather, its very safe and clean.
Mexican PUTAS are amazing, they were my #1 until the CCP flu hit Colombia 2020 and forward, Medellin and Bogota truly were HEAVEN on Earth.
Why we are neglecting our Christian neighbors and putting all this money into Godless China is beyond me.
To answer this question, I must say its the Godless Jews in Silicon Valley / Wall St / K Street, they really hate Christians!!
Somebody on his staff must have shown "Two Weeks" TACO Trump in stick-figure cartoon format that American Consumer spending would tank noticeably unless he once again chickened out and retreated back to the way Bidenomics already solved that problem:
[B]Trump administration pauses Social Security benefit cuts over defaulted student loans.
June 2, 2025[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/02/trump-pauses-social-security-benefit-cuts-over-defaulted-student-loans.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]Social Security recipients do not need to worry about their benefits being garnished due to their defaulted student loans, at least for now.
The development is an abrupt change in policy by the administration, which had announced in April that it would be resuming collection activity on defaulted student loan borrowers.
The Education Dept. had said that Social Security benefit offsets could begin as early as June.[/QUOTE]And I must post this now, which I agree might be the Picture of the Year! Hilarious! LOL.
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3007077]Just stop. There is not a Republican I know against immigration. We want the best people the world has to offer. Our country is made up of immigrants. We Republicans want hard working people who thrive when given freedom. We just want the people who come in to be vetted.[/QUOTE][B]This statement by Elias 2008 is not true![/B]
[U]My proof[/U]
[I][u]Some of the starkest partisan divides on political values are seen in views about race and immigration[/u]: Democrats are substantially more likely than Republicans to say that the country has not gone far enough to give black people equal rights and that white people benefit from societal advantages that black people do not have. Democrats also express more positive views of immigrants and the nations growing ethnic and racial diversity.[/I]
[URL]https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/12/17/views-on-race-and-immigration/[/URL]
[B]Republicans are racists and isolationists. Full Stop![/B]
Unfortunately, even if his staff explains it to him with whatever stick-figure cartoon format they have been using to teach him something, anything, "Two Weeks" TACO Trump's blithering blather about his American Consumer Tax Increase Tariffs has done a lot of irreversible damage to the economies of America and the World.
Just like his decisions to lay the groundwork for, usher in and exacerbate Repub Trump's Pandemic did the last time millions of voters were stupid enough not to vote for the Democratic candidate no matter who he or she was.
Oh well.
[B]USA Growth forecast cut sharply by OECD as Trump tariffs sour global outlook.[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/us-growth-forecast-cut-further-by-oecd-as-trump-tariffs-sour-outlook.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on Tuesday downgraded its growth forecasts for both the U.S. and global economy.
[B]The U.S. growth outlook was revised to just 1.6% this year and 1.5% in 2026.[/b]
Tariffs and policy uncertainty were among the key factors cited by the OECD to explain the reductions.
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The fallout from Trumps tariff policy, [b]elevated economic policy uncertainty, a slowdown of net immigration and a smaller federal workforce[/b] were cited as reasons for the latest downgrade.
Global growth, meanwhile, is also expected to be lower than previously forecast, with the OECD saying that [b]the slowdown is concentrated in the United States, Canada and Mexico, [/b]while other economies are projected to see smaller downward revisions.
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The OECDs inflation outlook shows a notable difference between the U.S. and some of the worlds other major economies. For instance, while G20 countries are now expected to record 3.6% inflation in 2025 down from 3.8% in Marchs estimate [b]the projection for the U.S. has risen to 3.2%, up from a previous 2.8%.
U.S. inflation could even be closing in on 4% toward the end of 2025[/b], the OECD said.[/QUOTE]Dem President Joe Biden was (and still is) lucid enough, cognitively competent enough, smart enough, well-informed enough, wise enough, experienced enough and politically skilled enough to know how to Put America First in whatever global economic challenge presents itself or has been handed to him by the out-going Repub Administration. Which is why even "Two Weeks" TACO Trump chickens out on some of his most disastrous proposals and retreat right back to the far, far superior Bidenomics conditions he inherited on January 20,2025.
By stark contrast, Repub so-called president Trump was not and is not any of those things. But he is very good at putting America last among all other G20 countries on the most important metrics.
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3007106] I do not know what the USA needs that the Americas does not have.[/QUOTE]Motorcycles!
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3007106]Do you?[/QUOTE]Yes, I do. The China Man, the Japanese and the Europeans all make better motorcycles than the Dis-United States of America.
[QUOTE=Goatscrot;3007162]First of all I don't consider myself a Democrat. They are center right at best when it comes to the economy and I'm slightly to the right of Lenin. I'm all for a proper guest worker program that is enacted and actually functions, but it seems to me that both parties don't really want to solve the issue, the Democrats want an open border, and the Republicans want to close the border, both want to keep it a political hot potato so that they can use it to stop every election cycle. This is the inherent problem with American politics where he only have two viable parties.
First of all I don't consider myself a Democrat.[/QUOTE]Goatscort, the Democratic politicians want to let everyone in to the USA, use the money of other legal citizens to pay these illegal aliens, and have the illegal aliens vote Democrat. It was another attempt to rig an election. The Democrats like our own Loony Tooms claimed that the completely open border was closed. Trump came in and actually closed it. People paying taxes and people whose jobs were threatened by illegals and had to deal with these illegals were often Democrats. So both Republicans and Democrats who are not pols want the border to only be open to people who are legally allowed in the USA. That should not even be controversial.
For all the racist bullshit being thrown out and the paranoia that Republicans hate foreigners, legal immigration did not slow down with Trump. [URL]https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-effect-immigration-reality[/URL], But as the Trump tenure nears its end, analysis of immigration data shows that, despite public perception to the contrary, the administration's policies have not led to a marked drop in the number of permanent immigrants, temporary foreign workers, international students, and those receiving asylum in the United Statesat least not yet. In other words, with the exception of refugee admissions, there has not been a dramatic, across-the-board "Trump effect" attributable either to the administration's policies or rhetoric on immigration levels.
Of course, the data can be skewed as it is so often is by Democrats based on 2020: Instead, the most significant drop in USA Immigration during the president's term came from COVID-19.
And this is what Loony Tooms does. He blows off that the pandemic was the fault of China, blames Trump, and then includes 2020 in all the jobs and economic data. Everyone who came back to work in 2021 was a job that Biden, who could not even walk a lot of the time, created.
And you are right. Immigrants have been key to the USA not falling into the demographic trap that has plagued so many nations. I actually hope Trump speeds up legal immigration as getting in productive immigrants is a huge plus to our economy, but the state department is so overwhelmed right now with the massive shit show that Biden left them with the illegals.
[QUOTE=EihTooms;3007252]Unfortunately, even if his staff explains it to him with whatever stick-figure cartoon format they have been using to teach him something, anything, "Two Weeks" TACO Trump's blithering blather about his American Consumer Tax Increase Tariffs has done a lot of irreversible damage to the economies of America and the World.
Just like his decisions to lay the groundwork for, usher in and exacerbate Repub Trump's Pandemic did the last time millions of voters were stupid enough not to vote for the Democratic candidate no matter who he or she was.
Oh well.
[B]USA Growth forecast cut sharply by OECD as Trump tariffs sour global outlook.[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/us-growth-forecast-cut-further-by-oecd-as-trump-tariffs-sour-outlook.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL].[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opinion/trump-taco-resilient.html[/URL]
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3007288]And you are right. Immigrants have been key to the USA not falling into the demographic trap that has plagued so many nations. I actually hope Trump speeds up legal immigration as getting in productive immigrants is a huge plus to our economy[/QUOTE]Most Republicans (not all) are racist to the core. They are not interested in doing what is best for the entire country. They are only interested in themselves and the greater white population of the Dis-United States of America.
One of the biggest problems with Republicans is that they are selfish.
What is the most effective way to improve society? To make everyone more affluent. Dramatically decrease poverty. Immigration can help do that. The reason why Republicans are against legal immigration is because their rich Republican friends benefit from the current system of hiring illegal immigrants. That is why they never do immigration reform when they are in control of the House of Representatives, The Senate and the Presidency. [U]The argument that this is about national security is a lie[/U]. It is about the profits their rich friends getting their continued windfall profits from the labor from illegal immigrants.
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3007200]Yes I wouldn't completely be against making one country from the top of Canada to the bottom of Tierra del Fuego or maybe something like the EUs Schengen zone? Maybe free trade and free movement?[/QUOTE]Yeah, at some point, I would like to see that too. Right now, there is no net migration of people from Mexico to the USA, and I can see tons more Americans settling in Mexico. The funny thing is we had hit all the tourist spots in Mexico, and I asked my gal's daughter where she wanted to go on our next trip to Mexico, and she said Merida. It rivals Monterrey for the most American city in Mexico and it is really safe. There is a lot of stuff for kids to do and she loves it there.
Anyway, if we invest and build these countries up, the people are probably going to be like the Mexicans and not want to leave home as long as there are good opportunities for them.
South America has their own Schengen type situation called Mercosur. My gal has free movement in most of South America and it applies not just to travel but to working too. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur[/URL] I would like to see North America link into this group at some point.
I was dating a Venezuelan girl and moved her out of Venezuela to Lima. While Bernie and the other socialists were praising Chavez and Venezuela, she was sending me videos of people eating out of the garbage.
The Peruvians are really nice, as nice as anywhere as I have been, but with rare exception, they are just not that attractive, and this GF, who was a looker even in Venezuela, was a Goddess in Lima, and she got a big head. The Canadian, who runs the blog my Latin Life, set up camp in two Latin cities, Mexico City and Lima. I loved his insights into the women but he removed them. He said Peru, Cusco in particular, was the easiest place in the world to get laid.
So I went to Lima dozens of times. Yeah, the food, the history, and the people are amazing. They have every sin you want: hookers, gambling, drugs. It is all there. That Pacific climate reminded me a lot of California. There are also cities off the beaten path I liked like Mancora for the beaches, Piura is the city you fly into and I liked it, and the city of Maccu Pichu I liked as well. The ruins there will take your breath away but the city itself as cool. FWIW, I did not care for Cusco.
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3007200]Mexico was amazing pre- CCP flu, I think the flu messed up the mongering scene these days.[/QUOTE]Well, it is not cheap like it was. Thing with Mexican women is they put up this emotional wall until they feel comfortable with you, and I think that is why a lot of guys give up on Mexico. People do not get the sugar daddy angle. People are like it is still all prostitution. There is this psychologist who is on youtube site called Psyhacks that I like. He said everybody pays for it, but if the women really like you, you get a discount. And if I really like a woman, I will do more than just hand her $.
I have heard people say how sugaring is paying women to like you, and I am like that is not why I did it. It is because when a woman is sucking your dick because she wants to versus for a $, the sex is way better. Money is a minimum motivator. How many times in your life is there some shit job and you say, okay I will do it but only if I get this amount of $. You do that when the job blows, but if you go to a job and you like the people and are having a ball, you might not even care how much you get paid.
With the pandemic, we had these dumbshit Democratic douches scared shitless with Covid, and I am going to the X parks like Xcaret and Xplor with two Mexican women, and they are empty. We did the zip lines at Xplor in like 2 hours versus the 8 hours it takes now and stayed at a suite that was $1000 per night for like $150. And then I invited a Colombian woman and met with these two Mexican women and stayed at an Airbnb.
The reason the Mexican men love Colombian and some Venezuelan women is they have a white collar air to them and they come off as more sophisticated, a more elegant beauty. When I take my gal to Mexico, all the men ask if she is Colombian, and she told me they ask that because of her accent. I am like, yeah, it is your accent babe and roll my eyes.
Bringing the Colombian into the mix was funny because the two Mexican women were work machines. They cooked every morning, scrubbed the floors, did my laundry, and I did not even ask. My gal is like that but this Colombian was not. Dramafree spent three months in Medellin and cannot stand Colombian women because of this attitude. It is really bad around Medellin. The women are known as Paisas, and the stereotype is that they are beautiful but materialistic and entitled but what he did not get is that the women living in Bogota and the coastal cities cannot stand the Paisas either. So DF focuses on Mexican women, does well, and I get why.
That was what was so funny about the Covid debate on line here. I am getting my dick sucked by three women at once and the Democratic douches are going on about how smart they are for locking themselves up in their basements. Even now these dumb douches think they were right about Covid. I really wonder how much of this Covid shit was just to get rid of Trump. I really do.
There was a guy on here who just went to Colombia and was asking what is the point when he can get laid in San Francisco for $300 in a spa and I am like if you are just looking to get laid do not do go. Thing is in 2020 when I was in Mexico I was with this hooker I would rate as a 9 with looks and performance was $50. That type of woman now is probably at least $200, and I am not sure if you are looking to get laid, it is worth it to go.
But you are missing half the Latin experience if you just look to get laid. Guys got mad at me when I said sugar daddy sex was better than hooker sex, and they are like, you cannot say that. You do not know, but I am like FU. After all the women I have been with, damned straight I can say that. Ask any guy who has done both and he will tell you the same thing. MDS, one of these two Mexican women was a 20 year old dancer who was five three, 100 lbs, and besides the cooking and cleaning, she told me she was a sex addict and wanted to fuck ten times a day. I mean that literally. Ten times a day. And I had a 21 year old in Mexico City who was like that. She was not the looker the dancer was but she was the same way. She would suck my dick nonstop for an hour.
So yeah, for the hookers, it is definitely not what it was, but I think if you are willing to do the work to find women like this in Mexico, they are there, and these dummies just looking for a quick lay are missing out. You have to get the women to put down their wall.
But the one country that intrigued me the most was Paraguay. Granted, it is boring as fuck there. But the women there have the sexual skill of the Brazilians, the giving attitudes and work ethic of the Mexicans, and the beauty of the Colombians. Because of the Mercosur, the best women move out often to Argentina. If you talk to the Argentine expats, they will tell you to a man, the best sex they have had is with the Paraguayan women.
I was lucky to find a woman like mine because of Covid. So many of the top women were working and then came on the market because they were put on leave and had little to do. It was a pussy gold rush I am not sure we will ever see again. 2009 and the Great Recession was good but it was not Covid. Usually to meet the best women, you have to set up shop and network. It is rare to meet a top Latin woman at a bar. Most of the time they are with their family and occasionally with friends. Of all the places I have been, Paraguay is the place I would have liked to set up shop. I just did not have the time.
Thing I learned with the Venezuelan girl is you have to see a woman at least every two months and preferably every month with long distance stuff or they start looking elsewhere. If you are a hot chick, they get offers from other guys night and day. Doing long distance is easy with Mexico, and possible with Colombia, but Paraguay is 12 hours total flight time. That is also why it is a gem. Most guys do not want to go to the trouble to get there.
And BTW, your mailbox is full.
[QUOTE=EihTooms;3007252]USA Growth forecast cut sharply by OECD as Trump tariffs sour global outlook.[/QUOTE]Oh right, and you think that is bad. [URL]https://carnegieendowment.org/china-financial-markets/2019/01/what-is-gdp-in-china?lang=en[/URL].
GDP is typically assumed to measure the creation of real economic value. For instance, if you teach your friend Spanish for free, you add to the wealth of the economy, but you do not add to GDP. By contrast, if he does pay you, the country's GDP does increase by the amount of money you are paid, even though you are adding exactly the same value to the economy itself whether he pays you or not. In addition, not all measured activity actually creates value: building a bridge to nowhere, for example, creates exactly the same increase in GDP as building a much-needed bridge.
So when Biden and you Democratic douches praised green energy and the massive debt we went into putting in these idiotic electric charging stations in the middle of nowhere that are always broken down, GDP went up. And then you have Spain and Portugal that went massively "green" and had a weeks long blackout that would not have happened had they not been dependent on "green" energy. There was a term from this from the TV show, the Wire called juking the stats to show crime went down when it actually went up. The Biden administration was great at juking the economic stats. Hell, everything about the Biden administration including who was running the country was a fucking lie, and your going on about how great it was is pathetic.
This next passage scared the shit out of me: This is not what happens in China, where GDP is actually an input determined annually as the country's GDP growth target. The growth target of a given time period is decided well ahead of time, and to achieve it, various entities, including local governments, engage in the requisite amount of activity, usually funded by debt. As long as China has debt capacity, and as long as it can postpone the writing down of nonproductive assets, Beijing can achieve any growth target it desires.
But this arrangement changes the meaning of GDP. Reported GDP in China is no longer a measure of economic growth, but rather a measure of political intention.
Let's leave out what you Democratic douches orgasm over: bridges to nowhere, GDP "growth" which is fake, and one party rule. Eventually, the American market is going to crash. It is way overvalued but I was just focusing on the lack of capital that would result from our government's debt. Normally, you measure a country's financial health via debt to GDP but China has printed up more money than the EU and USA combined and now they are lying about GDP like no one else has in the history of the world. This makes the real estate bubble in the USA in 2008 look like nothing. This is the biggest bubble in the history of the world and when it blows, and it always takes longer than I think it will, the carnage is going to be epic. Most of the world's growth in the last two decades was because of China and it is going to be gone.
Thing is a billion dollar industry like the NBA cannot function without tennis shoes. People think if shoes were produced in the USA they would cost 3 x more, in actuality, it is like 10% more. There was not a slowdown in shoe production but there were in other industries and these industries waited years to get parts from China and suffered huge economic damages. That is why when Trump came in, he was just accelerating this trend to move supply chain out of China. The supply chain from China was known to not be reliable after Covid.
So yeah, there is going to be a little hit to GDP and inflation as we get our supply chains out of China. If you are the NBA, who cares if shoes are 10% cheaper if you cannot get them? And that should be the attitude of every business in America now. Run like hell and get the fuck out of China!
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3007301][URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opinion/trump-taco-resilient.html[/URL][/QUOTE]That is old news. I have already been pointing out that the more "Two Weeks" TACO Trump chickens out on his idiotic proposals and retreats back as close as possible to the Envy of the World Economy Bidenomics conditions he inherited from Biden-Harris, the better it is for him.
I should get a paycheck from your NYT.
Not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, former President Musk has finally read and comprehended the memo; "Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit And Dies. ".
Of course, gazing over the near global destruction of his brand, reputation and companies probably sent him searching through his ketamine, shrooms, ecstacy and Adderall trunk to locate that memo to re-read and review it.
[B]Musk calls Trump budget bill a 'disgusting abomination'.[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/musk-trump-budget-bill.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]Elon Musk blasted the big tax-and-spending-cut bill backed by President Donald Trump.
Trumps one big, beautiful bill is a disgusting abomination that will boost the federal deficit, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said.
Musk until recently led DOGE, the Trump administrations effort to cut government spending.[/QUOTE]Now, the next step in his recovery will be when he realizes that his entire DOGE fiasco was also a "disgusting abomination" that actually cost America more money than it saved:
[B]Scorecard: How Musk and DOGE could end up costing more than they save.
May 30, 2025[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/politics/doge-musk-government-savings[/URL]
However, as people in former President Musk's position well known, the recovery comes "One Day at a Time. ".