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Old 01-25-2018, 11:52 AM
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Good GOP tax bill is an oxymoron.

Do you believe in the tooth fairy too?
Sure, and that Mexico will pay for The Wall.
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Old 01-26-2018, 05:06 PM
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Donny’s long-promised 4% growth? Not even close. A mere 2.3% last year. Yet his minions still believe his lies.

http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...e-davos-792406
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Old 01-26-2018, 05:37 PM
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While Trump has talked up economic performance during his first year, it was simply a repeat of what we saw during the final Obama years: solid quarters of growth bracketed by slower growth; monthly job increases and historically low jobless claims; and high levels of inequality. In 2017, the economy grew 2.3% -- in line with its performance under Obama. But under Obama, the poor and middle class had their biggest annual wage increase ever, and more Americans had health insurance than ever.

Trump has conditioned us to disbelieve economic indicators, as did some of his high-profile supporters, who claimed the jobless rate was dropping under Obama because the books had been cooked. They did not care that the S&P 500 nearly tripled during the Obama years, even as they now tout every new record high under Trump. They did not care that the unemployment rate dropped from 10% early in Obama's tenure to less than 5% by the time he left office. Neither did they care that the poor and middle class received the largest annual increase in wages on record in 2016.

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/26/opinio...ion/index.html
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Old 01-27-2018, 08:01 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP)— Just last month, President Donald Trump was crowing about his chances for seeing the U.S. post 3 percent economic growth in 2017 and scoffing at the skeptics who predicted much less. Turns out the skeptics — actually, mainstream economists — were right and he was wrong...

TRUMP: “After years of stagnation, the United States is once again experiencing strong economic growth.”

THE FACTS: This is an exaggeration. The economy is doing better by some measures but data released right as Trump finished speaking shows it hasn’t yet accelerated meaningfully since his inauguration.

TRUMP: “Since my election, we’ve created 2.4 million jobs. And that number is going up very, very substantially.”

THE FACTS: Actually, job growth is going down.

Looking at annual totals, rather than since the November 2016 election, U.S. companies and other employers added 2.1 million jobs in 2017. That was actually the lowest job growth in seven years.

TRUMP: “The tax cut bill is expected to raise the average American’s household income by more than $4,000.”

THE FACTS: Most mainstream economists are skeptical of this figure. The average household will see its income rise $1,610 in 2018 because of cuts in income tax, according to the Tax Policy Center.

TRUMP: “The world’s largest company, Apple, announced it plans to bring $245 billion in overseas profits home to America. Their total investment into the United States economy will be more than $350 billion over the next five years.”

THE FACTS: This is misleading: It’s not clear from Apple’s statement that it is actually increasing investment in the U.S. from its current levels.


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Old 01-28-2018, 12:29 PM
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Donny’s long-promised 4% growth? Not even close. A mere 2.3% last year. Yet his minions still believe his lies.

http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...e-davos-792406
I know a man who acted up at work, getting himself FIRED because he believed (As in past-tense.) the lie that manufacturing jobs are swarming back to the USA like locusts and he wouldn't be unemployed long.......

It's been five months, now. Moron.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two percent of U.S. adults said they had gotten a raise, bonus or other additional benefits due to the Republican tax law enacted a month ago by President Donald Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday.

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Old 01-29-2018, 08:38 AM
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Dunno why Whell bothers creating threads. They always wind up making him look like a Donny sycophant fool, once the facts are revealed.
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So what explains Wall Street? Another "Irrational Exuberance"?
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Old 01-29-2018, 10:11 AM
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Probably, yes.
Reestablishing the conditions that led to the recession of 2008 will allow a few well placed insiders to make a killing and get out before the collapse.
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Old 01-29-2018, 10:19 AM
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So what explains Wall Street? Another "Irrational Exuberance"?
From the OP:

"Conventional Wisdom" - tax cuts for business are bad, since the business will not pass along the benefit of those cuts to workers, and there will be no economic benefit for anyone except business owners or share holders.


Posts on this page and previous pages show that the “conventional wisdom” is exactly correct. The lion’s share of the benefits of this tax cut are indeed going to business owners and shareholders, not Main Street. Whell gets it wrong, as he always does.
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