This mofo is NOT our bro, David. Gosh, if you and Gareth weren’t so sexually potent I’d be mad…but I can’t be. On account of the rizz the Bad Boys are oozing.
Well, the people Trump cares about were comparatively the richest in this era. The Carnegies, Vanderbilts, Morgan’s, etc. Everyone else, not so much. He’s doing everything he can to get us back there as quickly as he can.
The US has only had the highest GDP in the world since 1890; China and the UK had the honor before that. India was the largest before them...and those pesky Brits and their colonization.
What kills me is that we weren't rich because of tariffs; we just were more technologically advanced.
Also had some pretty rad labor movements and a super effective general strike during the same time period if we are trying to really be authentic about repeating history.
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Could all the fats in his diet do their fucking job already?!?
What kills me is that we weren't rich because of tariffs; we just were more technologically advanced.
So were the Panics of 1873 and 1907, bookending the 1893 one.
https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/banking-panics-of-the-gilded-age