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The article I posted made clear that pharmaceuticals were excluded, however the post I was responding to suggested I must be pro-"Big Pharma". I was merely responding that tariffs would very much just allow Big Pharma to crank up their prices, which is what all the major industries will do. Nonetheless, Trump is indeed threatening and has threatened to include pharmaceuticals in his ad valorum taxes.

Yes, folks please pay $2300 for your new iPhone while you wait 15 years for Apple to build new factories here. And btw they will still cost $2300 and maybe more because our workers demand higher pay. Forbes is not liberal. It's just business. Adding 10% per pill, nearly $1 billion more in drug costs is definitely pro-pharma - let's face it folks all these big industries are more than happy to charge more for everything - but that's Trump's doing.

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Ok, the point stands. The economy was terrific, in fact the best in the world. The country club manager turned chief executive just threw a hammer into a smoothly humming engine of a Lamborghini.

Just curious, did your feelings about this, erm, "denominator", ever bother you while watching Eddie Murray?

Insert [This is Fine house burning meme] here.

This isn't a correction. This is caused by unilateral market interference.

Sorry, are you arguing that the job growth was not extraordinary?

NASDAQ is on pace for its second consecutive decline of over 5%. That has only happened three other times: in 1987, 2001, and 2008.

This is precisely the problem. The economy was not just fine, it was great. Trump just declared a national economic emergency and has released poison into the economic body. He just had to keep his paws off of it.

That's exactly it! Trump's deranged behavior causes this whole cycle. Yes, Trump does orange man bad, normal people react normally - "look! someone should care!" - magaworld just hears "blahblahblah". It's hilarious, I agree. Another instance is Fox - Sean Hannity no less - platforming Russell Brand. Who of course is promptly arrested for rape and other yaknow bad things. But hey "blahblahblah" it's just a syndrome stemming from Trump's derangement.

Trump's Derangement and its Effects, aka Trump Derangement Syndrome. What cracks me up about this is that when Trump or his cadres do something... pick one: stupid, foolish, immoral, corrupt, risk, dangerous, unethical, duplicitous - it is immediately labeled as TDS, which gives maga folks permission to ignore it. That's TDS. It's called a syndrome because it's repetitive and duplicated and sometimes redundant, because Trump's proclivity for... well stupidity, foolishness, immorality, corruption, risky behavior, dangerous actions, unethical behavior, duplicity - is so prolific that it's constantly happening. Thus -> "TDS".

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It's pretty obvious you don't work. I don't think people would have much interest about politics if the issue was how do policies affect the non-working wealthy. You should buy a pub or do something fun with your money.

I'm not really confident you're employable, to be frank.

Convo's not about you, amigo. But I do worry about you as apparently you can't pull a quarterly tech index figure while you're armchairing your picks.

Business owners, capital investors, manufacturers & builders are a whole other class. Tariffs go right down to the studs in any project.

Poor people, the middle class, builders, manufacturers & venture investors.

You’re not negotiating a deal if the person you’re negotiating with breaks deals.

NYC hotel manager has something to say - but what’s the point of negotiating a trade deal with the US. Trump has already broken the trade deals with Canada & Mexico that he himself negotiated personally. The US has simultaneously broken scores of treaties & trade agreements unilaterally. No one wants to be negotiating with us. They’ll just deal with China & Europe.

The envy of the world - The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust. - 10/19/24 The Economist.

I get it, just answering a question.