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Are the markets figuring out the Trump economic boom is a chimera ? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2017 OP
Stock market is slipping as well. Iliyah Sep 2017 #1
Fragile zipplewrath Sep 2017 #3
No, they fear what Trump might do to screw it up Johonny Sep 2017 #2

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
1. Stock market is slipping as well.
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 01:09 PM
Sep 2017

It's a matter of time, maybe sooner than we think. Job market is slowly declining. Farmers ain't to happy, gas is up and food at markets are so damn expensive. Housing market is slowing . . .

A conflict on the horizon. The USA is looked upon as dangerous. Ugh

That said, I still have "hope".

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
3. Fragile
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 01:31 PM
Sep 2017

Yup, most people knew that the economy was still a bit "fragile". Constant but weak growth for 8 years. A housing market that still hasn't fully recovered. Unemployment that is still short of recovering wages to their pre-recession levels. Uncertainty in health insurance markets. Trade uncertainties. Potential issues with conflicts in the middle east, Afghanistan, China, and the Koreas. And a stock market that seems to rise on unfulfilled promise. Almost anything could cause a collapse.

Johonny

(20,840 posts)
2. No, they fear what Trump might do to screw it up
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 01:21 PM
Sep 2017

Trump's slow action in terms of economic policy has kept market momentum going. Now there's fear his golden touch he's brought to every other policy is about to hit the tax rates, federal budget, raising of debt ceiling, and oh there's possible war with North Korea...

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