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Related: About this forumUS companies telling the Fed they are putting capital spending plans on hold due to Trump threats
David Fahrenthold Retweeted:This is a really big development.
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US companies are telling the Fed they are already putting capital spending plans on hold due to Trump trade threats.
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US companies telling the Fed they are putting capital spending plans on hold due to Trump threats (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jul 2018
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elleng
(131,136 posts)1. Stop the World, We're getting OFF!
Sounds good. ANY chance repugs will respond rationally to the chaos he's fomenting?
AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)2. Huh.
They got massive tax cuts AND they don't have invest or expand.
Huh.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. This was the Game plan with the election Dingle Berry Trump.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)4. They should start suggesting
Like he likes to do, they may move all operations outside this country until he's gone from office. He'll demand more to anyone giving in to him over anything, then expect he demands campaign contributions or he'll attack and hurt them. Basically he wants to shake them down, like he's trying to do to some countries.
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)5. There never was a capital expansion plan
They're just pissed a trade war will tank the market and the stock by back will have no effect on the price per share.