This chart seems to suggest that something is going wrong in the United States, specifically. (www.ft.com/content/7568... ) - ThreadSky

minerva1.bsky.social•13 hours ago

You would never know it if you consumed mainstream media in the US.

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nicktroehler.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Yeah we elected a fucking moron.

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luvieh.bsky.social•12 hours ago

not just the moron, we got the entire legion-of-doom😫

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jvdrieth.bsky.social•13 hours ago

In a nutshell

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corkonianbrian.bsky.social•11 hours ago

#andsoitbegins unfortunately that nut in the shell is growing on a tree full of other like-minded nuts.
If only there was a way to fell the tree and roast all the nuts ...

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jvdrieth.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Nicely put

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amwclark.bsky.social•11 hours ago

And the RasPUTIN who bought him
https://bsky.app/profile/amwclark.bsky.social/post/3lk5b65zwzk27

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magmart60.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Not we. Other morons.

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nicktroehler.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Meant the country, but yeah. 🙂

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saavikford.bsky.social•13 hours ago

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youtackything.bsky.social•11 hours ago

🎶 we had one but you didn't want that lady in office 🎶

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moonriver51.bsky.social•11 hours ago

What if....

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underwhelmed.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Someone call Columbo, Jessica Fletcher, Jane Marple and Sherlock fucking Holmes, we have a nigh-unsolveable mystery to crack.

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walksilly.bsky.social•14 hours ago

nothing upsets Trump more than this

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brightanimal.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Huh you think so

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melomys.bsky.social•13 hours ago

The convicted felon claims it’s just temporary. 🙄

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merien.com•1 hour ago

What could it be?

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mrlky.bsky.social•13 hours ago

85 million registered voters didn’t think it was important to keep the bleach up your ass guy out of the White House.

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ddr3ck.bsky.social•14 hours ago

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drtrobridge.bsky.social•14 hours ago

kinda funny thinking about how quickly Elon would have cancelled the Apollo program if he was in charge in the 60s

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globalinterest.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The astronauts stuck up in space this past year might believe they have been cancelled.

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drtrobridge.bsky.social•14 hours ago

OK not funny but all I can do is try to laugh these days

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polyparadigm.bsky.social•14 hours ago

He would have re-assigned von Braun’s team to address social sciences questions, no doubt

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prisonrodeo.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Would have been his one smart move.

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outpost36.bsky.social•12 hours ago

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raortman.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Yeah.
And we all know who he is.

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torshi.bsky.social•12 hours ago

What could it be 🤔🤔🤔

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nobodyowens1.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Only a true economic genius can read this graph appropriately. It's got winning written all over it. 😂

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charca2.bsky.social•13 hours ago

According to Trump that's winning. 😂

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nobodyowens1.bsky.social•13 hours ago

If that's winning, I prefer the stability of losing. 😂

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charca2.bsky.social•13 hours ago

So do I. 😂

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frothandbubble.bsky.social•3 hours ago

USA also underperforming in many ways we don't have charts for.

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aozora-aonami.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It's being run by corrupt idiots..

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clausewitzlacan.bsky.social•12 hours ago

If you wanted to help a few billionaires and dictatorial genocidal lunatics pick the bones clean of the American middle classes this is what you would do. Just to be king for a day

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clausewitzlacan.bsky.social•12 hours ago

This can’t be put right by talking boloney either. USA is going to tank hard and the rest of the world pick up us holdings at chump change discounts

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malljane.bsky.social•9 hours ago

What’s going wrong is that Trump is abandoning the other huge economy in the world that was our ally, the EU, with a total GDP comparable to the US, for Russia, with a GDP of about 2 T vs almost 30 for the US and 26 for the EU.
Why, why????
Make it make sense!

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malljane.bsky.social•9 hours ago

And the US and EU Both value FREEDOM unlike Russia!!!

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wikisteff.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Trump and Musk are working for Russia.

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ornwen.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Reject woke, go broke

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maartenvandenberg.org•1 hour ago

Hehehe…

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bagatelleyouwhat.bsky.social•8 minutes ago

Has anything happened this year? The news has been pretty quiet lately ...

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bullit-n-i.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Meanwhile the world economy is booming...

"We are bringing wealth back to America." -the Orange Stain

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mabbes1408.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Aka TangoMan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=124I9Ps2Ow0

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y-exclamationpoint.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I wonder what could be causing that
Does anybody have any idea?
Just here looking for facts

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braak.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Weird it looks like it started happening in... January?

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excannbiz.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Wow! What could possibly be the reason (s)??

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futureproofn.bsky.social•12 hours ago

As per Vlad’s instructions to his managing partners.

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jasonnlewis.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Can’t wait to take my kids on a college tour - got our Passports ready 🛂

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pamnapo.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Something is definitely going wrong in the United States.

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antikerbal.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Why is he still alive?

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chaddb.bsky.social•13 hours ago

🤔

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samuelwa.de•13 hours ago

Weird, what could that be?

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byteporter.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Someone get this brain genius a fields medal

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mindaftermathphd.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Not something, some one. Or some "two"

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craigipedia.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I wonder if something happened to us

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icarusrising23.bsky.social•11 hours ago

If only there was some way to pinpoint what that something is...

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beefunwellington.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Stickler.

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lucatrenta.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I wonder what happened.

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decenthuman61.bsky.social•12 hours ago

took the world's best economy and 6 weeks later, on the path to destruction.

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tacos-in-denver.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Time to pump up international stocks…

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texaskrusty.bsky.social•13 hours ago

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nicholassmith.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I, for one, am tired of all the winning.

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ssommer642.bsky.social•10 hours ago

With such a large debt losing investors confidence in US/dollar pretty terrifying.

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globalinterest.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Glad you noticed too, that debt doesn’t see much mention.

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violette7.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Something, something....

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mikemcintosh.bsky.social•13 hours ago

If only we knew what the problem was?

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brandonschulte.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Incompetence

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roozydelish.bsky.social•11 hours ago

i wonder if i can order framed prints on archival canvas directly from the FT

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willieyoung.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Well, yeah.

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richlevine6.bsky.social•14 hours ago

What could the reason possibly be?🤔

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xeynon.bsky.social•12 hours ago

America first!*

*- in economic and political dysfunction

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wvredlegs.bsky.social•14 hours ago

MAGA guy at work is blaming on “them” crashing the market to make Trump look bad.

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kenfinch.bsky.social•11 hours ago

lol. Low information voters.

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demdivacooks.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Who the hell are "they/them"???

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demdivacooks.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Seems good at digging his own hole while trying to bury the rest of us. What's to get? Midterms.

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wvredlegs.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Ummmm the people out to get Trump I suppose. Basically the made up boogy man Liberal that pays for protest.

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moved2italy.bsky.social•14 hours ago

It’s amazing how much of a pretzel their own cognitive dissonance can twist them into, isn’t it?

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wvredlegs.bsky.social•14 hours ago

He was complaining his 401k losses, but he had his money in super conservative funds the entire Biden Administration. Then went higher risk when Trump came back in. This person is not dumb, I just don’t understand how he doesn’t see it.

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moved2italy.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Even smart people can get sucked into a cult. 🤷‍♂️ And in my mind, even if 150 million Americans belong… it’s a cult!

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seekingjustice.bsky.social•14 hours ago

lol
It’s the ((globalists)) Trump said

As if my people don’t want to retire- oy

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jvdrieth.bsky.social•13 hours ago

As a globalist: nope, we were too busy playing, have you seen our amazing new space laser?!?

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ivychat.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Just in time to flatten our bread with blood from Gaza.

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jvdrieth.bsky.social•12 hours ago

You win crowbar of the year for that segue

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wvredlegs.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Yeah

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bewellgroomed.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Even that chart is downplaying the IRL sitch.

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rimbrakemonkey.bsky.social•13 hours ago

American exceptionalism

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jillco.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Yeah, we elected an adjudicated rapist and felon on a selfish revenge tour with zero knowledge of the economy nor government.

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andybop78.bsky.social•7 hours ago

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jasonnlewis.bsky.social•12 hours ago

🍊🍄🤏

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black--cat.bsky.social•9 hours ago

It's gonna get a lot worse.

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drtrobridge.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I am still waiting for the Very Stable Genius explain this to me

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el-condor-pasa.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Right after he sells some cars. For a fee, ofc, otherwise what’s the point of all this power.

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amwclark.bsky.social•11 hours ago

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graywyvern.bsky.social•11 hours ago

ya think?

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fxbx.bsky.social•14 hours ago

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robertswartz.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Rational markets FTW!

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drrxufa.bsky.social•14 hours ago

🎯Ya think?

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imacanadianinusa.bsky.social•13 hours ago

It ok, Ukraine is shorting

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nevadajones.bsky.social•11 hours ago

🤔

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fscoamodio.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Ditto.

https://bsky.app/profile/fscoamodio.bsky.social/post/3lk4et6hdks2x

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peculiarsusan.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Oh what could it be?

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bobbathandbeyond.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Hmm, whatever could it be?

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evphoto.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Capitalists have lost faith in the US

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damaholmen.bsky.social•9 hours ago

except for the tech broligarchs

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zoran-55.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Wait two more weeks. Rats abandon the ship.

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aliceinkeynes.bsky.social•14 hours ago

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thinkitthrough.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I wonder why?
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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galesinatra.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Trump Recession.

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mabbes1408.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I think we’re now calling it directly the ‘Trumpcession’, AKA ‘DumbPresEconEffUp’

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sagaciousai.bsky.social•7 hours ago

October 2024 envy of the world is now 🚽 that no one’s wants to touch

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dragonfountainsale.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Vanguard asset allocation recs looking pretty decent right now, though

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ilikesportsmostly.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Steve Doocey asked the WH spokeswoman today if someone on Trump's economic team had shorted the Dow.

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barrybarnes.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Yes. This guy.

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mountainmc.bsky.social•6 minutes ago

Play stupid games; win stupid prizes.

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tamslick.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Putin’s investment is really paying dividends.

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partoftheproblem.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I wonder what it could possibly be. Hmm 🤔

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partoftheproblem.bsky.social•13 hours ago

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4legsrgood.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Well, yeah. We’re fun by lunatics, grifters and toadies.

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mroddc.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I put all my money on this in December and have basically replicated this chart

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aliashandler.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Honestly can’t find a more solid example of a specific president actually influencing the local economy in a way where you can actually blame him for it.

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youtackything.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Right?? Usually, the President has limited influence on the economy. Turns out that's only true when the President is, like, a normal dude.

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damaholmen.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Well - Obama and Co. staved off the recession - that was helpful

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chadfarrenburg.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Big, if true. Can’t imagine what it is.

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yeahbutnahbut.bsky.social•14 hours ago

also works as a chart of life expectancy for developed countries

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bishopwhitewind.bsky.social•11 hours ago

COULD BE ANYTHING REALLY

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digitalsimulacra.com•13 hours ago

"We're all trying to find the guy who did this!

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undeadben.bsky.social•14 hours ago

a line going down is probably not a sign of good things

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blackbirdsing.bsky.social•14 hours ago

The line should be orange

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linuxrebel.org•13 hours ago

Yep, it's orange it's overweight it's in charge. Oh wait, you have to include his sidekick.

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nuceguyfromgtown.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I wonder what

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nubg84.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Yeah, an economic idiot starting a trade war

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barbarianmom.bsky.social•13 hours ago

It's not an economic idiot, just a standard grade moron that's the problem.

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primesquared.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Seems is doing a lot of work in that sentence

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dudethinking.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Update: something *is* going wrong in the United States, specifically.

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masterofnone87.bsky.social•3 hours ago

American stocks had become like 70% of the MSCI World. The market hadn't correctly priced the odds of a madman getting elected, mainly because it somehow had reached the conclusion that a madman getting elected was a good thing.

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robinlanark.bsky.social•13 hours ago

You must be a scientist. "Seems to suggest"? When does that become "significantly shows"?

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