Discussion: Mnuchin: Overall US Economy Not Harmed By Trade Battles

Yeah I am not a farmer or a business that uses material that has had tariffs put on it. So it hasn’t hit me.

YET.

It will and I fully expect the whole thing to crash the economy.

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Yummers.

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OMG, that’s EXACTLY what I was thinking.

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He and his sleazy wife both look like comic book villains.

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Kinda makes you wonder if his asshole is also puckering. Kinda.

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Both ends deliver the same results, so very likely.

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Hi AP - Secretary Mnuchin gave no context for his remarks on the economy. Is it better or worse than a decade ago? I see you follow his example by also providing no context for your readers. Some journalists would.

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and the middle class is the pork in that dumpling that used to be on the hoof as pigs

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they look like the ones on anime characters

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with welfare handouts that are in no way the same as those that go to the unemployed - don’t even think about it. completely different and in keeping with the free market sink or swim style you love

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her whole expression is “take that peasants”

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The large corporations, having gorged on the trillions of dollars of tax breaks can easily ride this out by firing a few thousands.

The common people and small businesses of this country are the ones getting fucked sideways.

The 0.1% are always just fine.

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Mnethinks Mnuchin is lying through his teeth. Anything to please His Orangeness, I guess.

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administration would be “looking at different opportunities to help the farmers”

Vocational training to become Uber drivers…

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Mnethinks Mnuchin is really really stoopid.

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Mnuchin said that the administration would be “looking at different opportunities to help the farmers” and provide assistance to other sectors being “unfairly targeted” by tariffs from other nations.

It’s all fine. Rich will keep getting richer. Poor will keep getting poorer. We’ll find a way to bail out any donors who are unfairly targeted. It’s just fine.

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Did the idiot swallow something?

Or is the smirk :smirk: expression a warning of a forthcoming financial crisis?

Something is afloat, li’m certain of that!!!

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Mnumbskull Mnuchin! What a fucking genius.
Can you imagine a conversation between him and that retarded invertebrate Wilbur Ross?
MAGA!

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By the man that brought us the Suicide Squad and the IndyMac subprime crimes.

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Mnuchin is mostly right, in a very narrow sense The overall economy has not yet been harmed by trump’s trade war, because that war has barely begun and the damage hasn’t had time to propagate from the farmers and the nail factories and the motorcycle company and so forth to all the people those folks buy stuff from, or to the folks whose other purchases will be affected by higher prices. But that damage is inevitable.

So he’s correct in the same sense that an arsonist can be correct in saying “the structure overall has sustained minimal damage thus far” just after lighting a fuse on a dozen containers of gasoline inside a house.

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