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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: commonone   😊 😞
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Subject: 16 Nobel Economists Say No...
Date: 06/25/24 11:32 AM
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...to the convicted felon's economic policies, writing that Trump's plans would reignite inflation and cause lasting harm to the global economy. President Biden’s economic agenda is “vastly superior” to Trump’s, the Nobel laureates explained in a letter.

Yeah, yeah, I know... the Trump cult lives in a post-expert, fact-free world where expertise is shunned in favor of a fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants huckster's gut feelings.

A second Trump term would “have a negative impact on the U.S.’s economic standing in the world, and a destabilizing effect on the U.S.’s domestic economy,” and his “fiscally irresponsible budgets” would reignite inflation that has “come down remarkably fast” in recent weeks, they warned.

Gee, whodathunk that extending tax cuts and introducing higher tariffs, including 10% on all imports and between 60% and 100% for products from China and Mexico, could be inflationary?

I mean, besides these 16 Nobel Prize winning economists.

huffpost.com - Nobel economists donald trump warning n
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