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olddad56

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13. I think Putin will love a reccession in this country. I think it is part of the plan.

Reply to Adrahil (Reply #12)

Fri Mar 2, 2018, 11:56 PM

Mar 2018

And the billionaires have probably already gotten out of the stock market, and will love it when the stock market and the housing market tumbles. They will be there to scoop up the cheap stocks and cheap houses before the next run-up. Just like the great recession that GWB created.

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Tariffs would aid steelworkers at expense of far more others [View all] riversedge Mar 2018 OP

A Economist this morning explained this Wellstone ruled Mar 2018 #1

+1 dalton99a Mar 2018 #20

Dumping steel hurts steel workers. guillaumeb Mar 2018 #2

A few taking from the many Turbineguy Mar 2018 #3

Tariffs can work if you spend a decade preparing the economy for them. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #4

Exactly - a money grab for those who manipulated Hortensis Mar 2018 #10

The bulk of our steel and aluminum imports ..... paleotn Mar 2018 #5

Companies in Canada, Germany and other developed contries are not doc03 Mar 2018 #7

It can be argued.... paleotn Mar 2018 #9

And we wonder why industrial workers went for Trump Kilgore Mar 2018 #6

LOLOL Skittles Mar 2018 #8

What I know or dont know makes no difference Kilgore Mar 2018 #14

if you learned more, maybe you could EXPLAIN it better Skittles Mar 2018 #16

they will need more money in their paychecks, this is inflationary. olddad56 Mar 2018 #11

It may be Kilgore Mar 2018 #15

"our party" Skittles Mar 2018 #17

Thos "former Democrats" need to pull heir heads out of their asses. Adrahil Mar 2018 #21

Well, if a trade war initiates a recession, let's see how they like that. NT Adrahil Mar 2018 #12

I think Putin will love a reccession in this country. I think it is part of the plan. olddad56 Mar 2018 #13

Putin is laughing his ass off. NT Adrahil Mar 2018 #19

Tump's follies duforsure Mar 2018 #18