KEY POINTS
- Goldman Sachs expects aggressive duties from the White House to raise inflation and unemployment and drag economic growth to a near-standstill.
- In a note Sunday, the firm said “we continue to believe the risk from April 2 tariffs is greater than many market participants have previously assumed.”
- The firm raised its forecast for inflation this year to 3.5%, cut its GDP outlook to just 1% and raised its unemployment view to 4.5%.
And this is the Fart of the Deal… inhale Muricans
When the rich people are now questioning the other rich people, you know shit isn’t exactly going to plan.
At least not the plan some of the rich thought they were getting. They forgot to factor in the incompetence.
And that’s without taking into account the crashes to come when there will be a correction after all the shady stuff done by the financial sector when there no longer is any agency capable of supervising them. That will likely have planetary repercussions,.
or the persistent international distrust Trump has carved towards the USA for decades to come
No fucking shit
Even now we could stop doing idiotic things and we might recover in a few years? But if we continue, we’ll run out of every single company’s rainy day fund. At that point in the not too distant future we’ll start seeing one no-name company go belly up. Then a few days later two, then the next day ten, then 200. Finally we’ll be in a deepest recession ever. People will be jumping out of buildings.
I mean lots of companies are declaring bankruptcy already
- forever21
- 23andMe
- hooters
- party city (2024)
- joann
How many of those have been because they’ve been sucked dry by private equity?
Not that Trump is blameless, but I’d expect the casualties of his sabotage to take longer to surface.
Seriously, all of those companies listed have various quality issues that seem to stem for poor policy and a ‘profit at all cost’ mentality.
Ever been to a hooters that didn’t have a parking lot that was falling apart, or tables and machines that look to have been needing repairs for years? The details might not matter to every consumer, but I know I’d rather visit the restaurant that at least tries to keep up appearances.
Wow I’d never considered that with Hooters but now that you mention it, every Hooters I’ve been in (only 2 of them) has been kind of dark and dirty looking like a 1980s era Pizza Hut.
The trump regime was designed to TANK the US economy so that stocks, businesses, and industries can be bought by billionaires at rock bottom prices.
All is going according to plan.
This is entirely a self-own by donvict and his stupid sycophants. He was handed an economy that had so many great indicators and within mere weeks, was able to fuck it up.
Heckuva job, donnie.
Sabotaging the US economy and destroying the power of the US and EU were the jobs Trump was put in to do.
It is almost like our glorious leader is an idiot.
Or he wants to destroy America. Then he is brilliant.
You are both correct.
tRUMP is clearly, clearly an idiot. However his glorious leader, putin, must be considered brilliant to do what he’s done.
He’s completely evil, etc, but he can die happy knowing of the damage he’s done to the USA (and other countries) will be felt for decades.I hate them both with a passion, but you’ve got to give credit where it is due.
(He’s also damaged Russia for decades to come)
Translation: hey rich customers, fire sale and reason to lay off your highest-paid employees incoming!
Remember, they and the people who listen to them wanted this.
That only works if you are expecting a rebound… the way Trump is going about this, who the hell would trust a single word of a trade deal with USA?
People who want money or resources. You have to remember though, these aren’t the brilliant businessmen they think they are.
Most of these rich people are rich through family and luck, and believe they have magical powers to resurrect businesses and economies with a snap of their fingers.
They think they’ll just put everything back together with them at the top. They really have no idea how they’ll do that, of course.
They don’t understand just how bad it’s going to get. It’s going to make 1929 look like playtime.
Yeah, but 1929 was actually fine for the richest families. Plenty of wealthy people got even richer.
You’ll notice the language in that article describing the success of the businessmen is stock-market-bro speak for ‘gobbled up businesses for pennies on the dollar thanks to the depression, then rode out the storm and made bank’.
Lots of guys on the market these days dreaming of building empires that way.
Trump is trying to harm the economy of all the allies of USA, because reasons.
The strategy is to commit economic suicide, to prove the dependency on USA.The plan is flawless if you don’t give a shit about anything, except creating attention for yourself.
The plan is flawless if you don’t give a shit about anything, except creating wealth and power for yourself.
More and more I feel like he’s just trying to get us embroiled in something that provides cover for him to ratchet into the next slot of dictator. If he can get a real crisis on his hands he’s plausibly cleared for all sorts of seemingly desperate measures. Such as third terms, and criminalization of “sentiments” (“doesn’t like me” turns into “supports the enemy”, opposition turns into enemy, temporary emergency actions turn into permanent dictatorship).
So do we all.
Ah yes, when Trump does his own research.
As does much of his cabinet, it seems. That, or if they know better, they are too afraid and power-seeking to counter even the very stupidest of his “ideas”.
Meanwhile, anyone with a halfway decent high-school education, knows this is what happens when you engage in a trade war with all your major trading partners.
So why aren’t the big players on Wall Street raising hell over this?
they’re are vultures, hoping to buy low and sell high.
They have lots of liquidity and are willing to take the hit to buy more at lower prices.
I bet before the end of the day we’ll hear about how Goldman Sachs, of all places, is full of RADICAL LIBERALS and has gone WOKE!
We jumped the shark when they called the FBI “woke leftists” however many years ago that was.
That was in February
I’m really talking about the Mara Lago raid in 2023.
Please call it The Trumpcession.
The Trump Slump!
I already coined it The Great Repression
The Great Regression. The greatest, I’m told. Many people are saying it.
The Republican Depression or Trump Depression. The Republican dust bowl also.
Trump’s gonna call it a fire sale. Him and his buddies will just get more powerful.
I guess we could just call bankrupting anything from now on “going in the orange”. You know when you’re so far in the red your only choice is to turn into a fascist and begin killing immigrants you’re probably in the orange
And if it goes beyond a recession, we can call it a Trumpression.
I’m trumpressed
