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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre the markets figuring out the Trump economic boom is a chimera ?
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS724US724&q=dow+live&oq=dow+live&gs_l=psy-ab.3..35i39k1j0l3.5792.8604.0.9001.9.9.0.0.0.0.188.936.7j2.9.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.9.931.6..0i131k1j0i20i46k1j46i20k1j0i20k1.pnCGfELGETURemember that is the only thing holding Chump up right now.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)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".
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)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...