When u cut taxes in a strong economy, raise inflationary pressures. So..higher interest rates. In anticipation, market drops. Mortgages cost more. If this is not a correction, this is what is happening. Go back to days be4 tax cut passed: its what i explained would happenTax cuts are supposed to be a stimulus. (Obama's stimulus was mostly a matter of tax cuts, although most Americans refused to believe that he had, in fact, cut taxes.) You do not need a stimulus of any kind at a time of full employment. Full employment is the time when you try to get out of the red.
when u add on top of unnecessary tax cuts in a strong economy, then a high budget, you create unquestionable push to inflation. So enjoy your pennies from the tax cut. You'll pay dollars on mortgage and fall of house value if this recklessness continues
For the willfully stupid, here is an economist: Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics: “Deficit financed tax cuts and spending increases in a full-employment economy will result in more Fed tightening and higher interest rates.” WHICH..kills the middle class.
Cutting taxes and running massive deficits at a time of full employment is economic suicide. If u want to sell your middle class house or refinance, do it NOW. The pennies in tax cuts will disappear in dollars of housing losses. But the rich still do fine. Gee, what a surprise
You cannot cut taxes on the basis of zero economic theory. When it runs counter to all economic knowledge, you don’t have a fiscal policy. You have piggish donors for whom billions is never enough.
That is basic Keynesianism: You run deficits during the bad times as an emergency measure, to get the economy moving again -- and you pay the money back during the good times. Seems reasonable, right? Yet the Republicans always insist on doing the reverse.
And now, a word from the stable genius:
This, from the man whose sole accomplishment was a massive tax cut (mostly aimed at the wealthy) which is projected to increase the deficit by $1.5 trillion dollars.
A word on woke: I've seen many slang expressions come and go. "Woke" is one I don't like. It started out fine, as a term used by black activists to denote the need for awareness and a reasonable degree of paranoia. But look at it now (via the Urban dictionary):
Woke as fuck"I was reading about fractional reserve banking..." Who, exactly, were you reading, my friend? Eustace Mullens, I'm guessing. If not him, then someone citing him, or influenced by him.
Knowing what the fucks up and not getting bogged down by what you're told to think by public interest groups and mainstream media.
>central banks
>oil wars
>media propaganda
>online censorship
>big pharma
>9/11 being an inside job
>child sex trafficking
I was reading about fractional reserve banking and it turns out were actually debt slaves.
"Dude ,you're woke as fuck"
In other words, being "woke as fuck" means that you're an Alex Jonesian nutjob who believes in controlled demolition bullshit and Pizzagate. You've also become entranced by reactionary theories concerning the Federal Reserve. It's the same pattern I noted as far back as the 1970s: The far right keeps appropriating terminology from youth culture and black culture. That's how they're able to make their ancient and extremely familiar propaganda seem fresh and vibrant.
Apparently, you are considered woke only if you've let the far right hypnotize you. We have a new Orwellian paradox: Woke is sleep.
A final note: As noted above, Obama cut taxes, yet most Americans thought that he raised taxes. Obamacare decreased the number of uninsured, yet most Americans think that the number of uninsured went up. At last polling, the number of Americans who think that Hillary Clinton should be investigated for imaginary ties to Russia (68%) is substantially larger than the number of Americans who think that Trump colluded with Russia (47%).
How can there be any hope when we face an enemy who possesses the power to rewrite reality itself?
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There's a problem with Eichenwald: inflation invariably strengthens the stock market, it doesn't weaken it. Money goes from bonds and property into shares, especially in international companies, for obvious reasons.
Cheer up. Electoral College outcomes didn't accurately reflect the popular vote. Those people haven't switched sides watching the White House sinking under sludge of their own creation. Putin can only do so much to distract us from the smut and errors.
The 51% don't have doubts about where there is smoke and where there is fire. They're going light up the polls in November, 2018, and everyone who's been playing along with the Pants-on-fire team are going to feel the heat.
The polls are ginned to reflect a bias that suits pollsters' highest paying audiences. Don't get lost in Trumpodiks' pay for play flippin' policy funhouse mirrors. If you believe the polls, you probably believe the croc that the President is a great negotiator or that he hires the "very best people". Abusers and sexual predators don't negotiate, they disrespect, lie, cheat, steal, wheedle, abuse, manipulate, bully, and blame others. He's just "a whinin' boy, don't deny (his) name" (apologies to Hugh Laurie).
Stock markets are a poor measure of the health of the economy. We all know that legislators' fiscally irresponsible tax cuts were a government entitlement program for already cash-flush corporations and the whiny 1%.
The cuts, by rapidly increasing the deficit, will cause reductions in essential human services programs (like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security) that benefit a majority of Americans. This legislation, combined with reductions in government agencies account to the public and maintain a balance between private and public interests, will greatly increase ordinary Americans' financial insecurity over the next 6 years.
Most Americans have too much personal debt -- for education, credit cards, homes -- to even save for a rainy day, let alone put money in the stock market.
Like polls designed to further a political agenda, movements in the stock market don't represent the needs or interests of most Americans. the idea that an uber-wealthy individual has the motivation to start businesses that will provide jobs better than a few more cabana cabin boys or domestics is laughable. The idea that corporations already sitting on piles of cash reserves need more cash from tax cuts to expand businesses for which there is no market is ridiculous.
If the market remains volatile, baby boomers will liquidate 401ks.
What is more worrisome than the polls, is the fact that forces have been at work undermining the institutions of democracy. When branches of government no longer serve their function as a check on the powers of any other branch, we're deep in the swamp. Mitch McConnell's role in preventing Pres. Obama from appointing a Supreme Court Justice is a case in point, but Republican's work gumming up the workings of a healthy democracy started much earlier, with gerrymandering and discrediting judges who would impose remedies on partisan districting.
dataflo
Beware the print and broadcast news media, their interests ad revenue not truth or democracy. Punch a Jessie.
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