https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-and-indo-pacific-blocs-eye-major-new-trade-pact/

Carney constructs a mega anti-Trump trade alliance; The Canadian prime minister is spearheading discussions between the EU and a major Indo-Pacific trade bloc after calling on middle powers to join forces.


This is what the TPP would have done, except the US would have been a part of it as a bulwark to China. It was such a gift to China that Trump pulled the US out of negotiations in 2017. And even worse now that our former trade partners are moving on without us.

I can FEEL the #winning!

Hedge fund billionaire and massive Trump donor John Paulson plans to offshore the East Lake, Ohio, plant of Conn Selmer, the largest U.S. manufacturer of brass and orchestra instruments.

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Anonymous wrote:It's literally sabotage.

So stark that it does seem intentional.

When you assume Trump set out, at his benefactors request, to sabotage the country from within, everything makes perfect sense.

Anonymous wrote:It's literally sabotage.

So stark that it does seem intentional.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.ft.com/content/18a8c7e6-c3d5-4f57-ad0f-58463ede2bd2

Fund managers are taking the most bearish stance on the dollar in more than a decade, as the currency bears the brunt of the damage from unpredictable US policymaking.

Why aren’t the white finance bros in the street protesting?

“.. The pricing break is over. .. Companies .. are raising prices early this year on items from bluejeans and spices to housewares and industrial products.”

https://www.wsj.com/business/price-increases-consumers-businesses-b70e4542

https://www.ft.com/content/18a8c7e6-c3d5-4f57-ad0f-58463ede2bd2

Fund managers are taking the most bearish stance on the dollar in more than a decade, as the currency bears the brunt of the damage from unpredictable US policymaking.

It's literally sabotage.

The economy's falling apart and we're supposed to keep working til we drop dead.

Anonymous wrote:The administration claims inflation fell to 2.4%

Not sure I am seeing it where I shop, but perhaps other parts of the country are better.

Less work means less pay so fewer dollars chasing products so less inflation. Yay.

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Is it the 300k government hacks that got their walking papers?

You were lied to about that, too. Lots of them sued and got their jobs back, plus were paid for doing nothing while the litigation was ongoing. Pretty stupid way to run a government, right?

I'm happy with the government. If I had a job I couldn't stay up all night reading Trump's tweets immediately when he sends them.

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Anonymous wrote:The administration claims inflation fell to 2.4%

Not sure I am seeing it where I shop, but perhaps other parts of the country are better.

Is this the report that was incorporating 0s from items not tracked during the shut down?

Yes that has messed with the data and it will continue to be unreliable for months.

“Because a government shutdown paralyzed the Bureau of Labor Statistics last October and November, nobody knows what inflation was in two of the last four months.
But nothing in the data that we do have for the past eight months suggests we have recently been experiencing an inflation trend nearly as low as 2.4%.
On the contrary, average CPI inflation from last June through January was 3.2%.”