"So far they look like this:
1. Prices will come down right away
2. Actually, reducing prices is hard and will take a while
3. Sorry, but we need a painful economic detox
4. Hey, there’s more to life than consumer goods
5. ????" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-stages-of-trumpist-economic-grief
1. Prices will come down right away
2. Actually, reducing prices is hard and will take a while
3. Sorry, but we need a painful economic detox
4. Hey, there’s more to life than consumer goods
5. ????" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-stages-of-trumpist-economic-grief
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Do not, my friends, become addicted to water.
1. Consolidate offshored industries Consumers pay for it with inflated prices
2. Abuse workers to ignore lack of available labor
3. Promise to the upper middle class and wealthy: Robots and automation will plug the labor gap
2. Market collapse
3. ????
4. Profit!
#recession
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/business/economy/trump-recession-tariffs-inflation.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
This was assessment, built on summer work, of the Great Depression caused by Koch, Trump, Musk, & republicans: