Trump 47 Economy
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Anonymous
Teachers are in short supply also. That is not a "hands on, brain off" job. It's "hands on, brain on". As are other occupations you mentioned. Health care is going to be big as people age. You need to have skills for these jobs though. Train for them. |
Anonymous
Biden had a strong economy too. High prices still tanked Dems. Don’t count all your chickens yet while prices are increasing. |
Anonymous
Yet more than half of recent college grads don't have jobs. I doubt they feel like they are winning. For Trump it's about the wealthy getting wealthier. |
Anonymous
Why should we believe numbers from a government that is constantly lying to us? |
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Administration claims GDP grew at 3%, rebounding from the pullback last quarter.
However, Capital Economics North America Thomas Ryan economist pointed out that within the release there were still signs of slowing economic growth. Growth in sales to private domestic purchasers, which economists often reference as a key signal of underlying economic growth within the GDP release, rose 1.2% in the second quarter. This was lower than 1.9% growth seen in the first quarter and the slowest pace of growth since 2022. The tariff impact is still hanging over the economy and mass layoffs currently taking place will be a drag in future quarters. |
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WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve held rates steady for a fifth straight meeting Wednesday but faced rare dissents from two officials seeking an immediate cut.
The decision followed a period of intense political pressure on Fed Chair Jerome Powell by the White House to lower interest rates. Officials maintained their benchmark policy rate in a range between 4.25% and 4.5% as they weighed how importers, retailers and consumers will split the costs of higher duties on imports. The outcome of hand-to-hand combat over who will bear the burden of tariffs figures to shape the trajectory for inflation and hiring later this year, which could resolve whether and when the central bank resumes rate cuts in the months ahead. |
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Pithy from JPM: 
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Thank you for sharing this. I am not sure how business or any federal or state government can operate cleanly without good data like this. Our tax dollars are being expended for tax cuts and not for the collection and synthesization of data and we will all be worse off for it. |
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And there’s zero chance these “estimates” are being done without political pressure |
Anonymous
Wishful thinking? I don’t think this will be the case any time soon. However, if it were true, who is going to pay for plumbers, carpenters and electricians? The unemployed white collars? They will be using you tube to learn how to fix things. Everyone will suffer, except maybe for emergency personnel. |
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If government data becomes too unreliable and markets think Trump is cooking the books, it will be very expensive for taxpayers. Bond markets are willing to buy $2 trillion of securities at modest interest rates to finance our annual deficits because of trust in the full faith and credit. Mess around with that and they will demand far more to buy our debt. And Trump will add trillions more just as he did in his first term so tariffs are not going to save us from this mess. |
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And inflation heading up again
Inflation posts biggest rise in four months, PCE shows. Tariffs may be filtering into prices. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/inflation-posts-biggest-rise-in-four-months-pce-shows-tariffs-may-be-filtering-into-prices-757cebbd?mod=bulletin_ribbon |
Anonymous
What conspiracy? Are you saying that the government is still collecting all the data it collected last year? It’s not. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/06/29/americas-economic-data-are-becoming-murkier |
Anonymous
Can’t trust the data Can’t trust the FBI Election is rigged President has dementia Shadow government Rinse and repeat |