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Small businesses lead the legal fight against Trump's expanding tariff regime, which hits them hardest through upfront tax costs and complex compliance burdens that large firms can more easily absorb. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/09/07/world/small-businesses-despise-trumps-tariffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #trade #tariffs #useconomy #walmart #fordmotor #us #donaldtrump
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‘The most anti-union president’: how Trump turned his back on US workers
By Steven GreenhouseLabor experts stunned at how anti-worker Trump has been with actions since last Labor Day that have hurt unions
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/07/trump-workers-labor-union
#USunions #Trumpadministration #USeconomy #DonaldTrump #Business #USpolitics #USnews #TheGuardian #StevenGreenhouse
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‘The most anti-union president’: how Trump turned his back on US workers https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/07/trump-workers-labor-union #UsUnions #TrumpAdministration #UsEconomy #DonaldTrump #Business #UsPolitics #UsNews
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EA-CEO Retort VideoCast: #Trump Family Profits Amid America’s $40 Trillion Debt (Scott Lucas with Tim El-Sheikh)
#TrumpGrift #Crypto #USEconomy
https://eaworldview.com/2026/09/trump-profits-40-trillion-debt/
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117221114586080893
#USA national debt is 40 times what it was 45 years ago, when it was considered astronomical.
The govt's "money-out" is much greater than "money-in."
It must raise revenue (⬆️ money-in) & reduce spending (⬇️ money-out). Lowering taxes on wealthy & corporations will ⬇️ money-in. Pursuing wars & kicking tax-paying immigrants out will ⬆️ money-out.
Tariffs won't substitute for taxes because they're unreliable & ultimately unsustainable
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More about Bessent's #finance gymnastics (for all who are interested).
Something that stood out to me:
"Every bill-financed buyback pushes the share further above the band. Nobody knows how large the bill share can get before it threatens stability. What history shows is that a #debt stock that keeps tilting toward shorter maturities is usually a sign that borrowing #costs have begun to dictate policy" 👀
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#USA #US #USpol #USeconomy #bonds #BondMarket #yields #InterestRates #inflation -
But ~"unlike the Federal Reserve's ability to create money, Treasury funds repurchases by issuing more short-term bills, effectively swapping long-term #debt for shorter maturities... termed 'fiscal dominance,' Treasury directly influences financial conditions, a role traditionally of Fed. Critics say this blurs the lines between fiscal & monetary policy."
And Bessent's #finance gymnastics and snark-laden subterfuge concern me*
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#USA #USPol #USeconomy
*#MyThoughts
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesbroughel/2026/08/22/treasury-is-buying-its-own-bonds-where-is-the-money-coming-from/ -
And US Treasury Secretary Bessent has also attempted to calm the US bond market & lower yields (to lower the cost of financing US debt).
An explainer:
~"Yields usually rise w/ elevated concerns about #inflation or concerns about US fiscal sustainability, as investors demand greater inflation-adjusted returns"
"Treasury yield curve reflects the cost of US government debt"
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#USA #US #USPol #USeconomy
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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/20/bessent-says-treasury-buyback-operation-could-be-more-than-4-billion.html
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https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/why-the-national-debt-matters-for-the-u-s-bond-market-and-the-economy/
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Further, various countries hold US debt, and Japan is the largest holder.
US Treasury Secretary Bessent had to intervene recently to prop up Japan's currency. Why? Well one reason is #USA self preservation:
"Volatile markets driven by potentially fiscally-aggressive policies from Japan could extend to the U.S. Treasury markets (US bonds, debt), destabilizing the dollar."
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#US #USPol #USeconomy
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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/03/japan-yen-intervention-us-treasurys-euros-.html
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US gov't site:
https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/RS/PDF/RS22331/RS22331.52.pdf
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https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/090616/5-countries-own-most-us-debt.asp -
Note: The #TrumpAdmin is twisting itself in pretzels about this, arguing nonsense that 1) that US #inflation isn't bad and mostly related to an energy "supply shock" and 2) inflation isn't caused by growth ("only stupidity," per #trump ).
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#USA #US #USPol #USeconomy
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https://fortune.com/2026/09/05/trump-stupidity-inflation-trade-foreign-countries-retaliation-interest-rates/
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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/05/trump-warsh-fed-september-rate-hike.html -
But is that wise?
Analysts believe that:"If the Fed were to set the short-term interest rate that is its primary tool lower than necessary to achieve its congressional mandated goals of maximum employment and price stability, history suggests that the likely result would be unwelcome #inflation. Lower rates tend to stimulate borrowing and faster economic growth, and when demand grows faster than supply, prices rise."
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#USA #US #USPol #USeconomy
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https://www.brookings.edu/articles/should-the-fed-cut-interest-rates-to-make-it-cheaper-for-the-federal-government-to-borrow/ -
And another thing –
One of the screenshots in the previous post of this thread 🧵shows how the interest rate on US debt is $970 B, or upwards of a trillion dollars annually (truly mind blowing!).
The #TrumpAdmim seeks to lower interest rates not just to promote growth (as it lowers borrowing costs for businesses), but also to get a better deal on financing US debt.
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The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands
How Trump's Illegal Trade Duties Transformed Into a Multibillion-Dollar Corporate Windfall by Winston Wendell When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he promised a new set of tariffs would fix the damage caused by his own 2017 tax cuts. He said regular folks wouldn’t notice the extra charges on imported goods, American manufacturers would see a boom, and those millions in profits that used to flow to the national elite would finally go away. That’s not what […] -
The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands
How Trump's Illegal Trade Duties Transformed Into a Multibillion-Dollar Corporate Windfall by Winston Wendell When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he promised a new set of tariffs would fix the damage caused by his own 2017 tax cuts. He said regular folks wouldn’t notice the extra charges on imported goods, American manufacturers would see a boom, and those millions in profits that used to flow to the national elite would finally go away. That’s not what […] -
The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands
How Trump's Illegal Trade Duties Transformed Into a Multibillion-Dollar Corporate Windfall by Winston Wendell When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he promised a new set of tariffs would fix the damage caused by his own 2017 tax cuts. He said regular folks wouldn’t notice the extra charges on imported goods, American manufacturers would see a boom, and those millions in profits that used to flow to the national elite would finally go away. That’s not what […] -
The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands
How Trump's Illegal Trade Duties Transformed Into a Multibillion-Dollar Corporate Windfall by Winston Wendell When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he promised a new set of tariffs would fix the damage caused by his own 2017 tax cuts. He said regular folks wouldn’t notice the extra charges on imported goods, American manufacturers would see a boom, and those millions in profits that used to flow to the national elite would finally go away. That’s not what […] -
The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands
How Trump's Illegal Trade Duties Transformed Into a Multibillion-Dollar Corporate Windfall by Winston Wendell When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he promised a new set of tariffs would fix the damage caused by his own 2017 tax cuts. He said regular folks wouldn’t notice the extra charges on imported goods, American manufacturers would see a boom, and those millions in profits that used to flow to the national elite would finally go away. That’s not what […] -
Dollar Climbs to 99.15 as Treasury Yields Squeeze Markets
The dollar index rose to 99.15 after strong US jobs data lifted Treasury yields, pressuring emerging market currencies and equities.
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Dollar Climbs to 99.15 as Treasury Yields Squeeze Markets
The dollar index rose to 99.15 after strong US jobs data lifted Treasury yields, pressuring emerging market currencies and equities.
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Dollar Climbs to 99.15 as Treasury Yields Squeeze Markets
The dollar index rose to 99.15 after strong US jobs data lifted Treasury yields, pressuring emerging market currencies and equities.
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Dollar Climbs to 99.15 as Treasury Yields Squeeze Markets
The dollar index rose to 99.15 after strong US jobs data lifted Treasury yields, pressuring emerging market currencies and equities.
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/117217226633158713
53-minute special
#Trump camp mismanagement of #USEconomy, amid $40 trillion Federal debt, failing #IranWar, and Trump family’s profits and grift from Donald in White House
Consequences of spiralling US debt
Can they be reversed if Democrats gain control of Congress and eventually the Executive?
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/117217226633158713
53-minute special
#Trump camp mismanagement of #USEconomy, amid $40 trillion Federal debt, failing #IranWar, and Trump family’s profits and grift from Donald in White House
Consequences of spiralling US debt
Can they be reversed if Democrats gain control of Congress and eventually the Executive?
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/117217226633158713
53-minute special
#Trump camp mismanagement of #USEconomy, amid $40 trillion Federal debt, failing #IranWar, and Trump family’s profits and grift from Donald in White House
Consequences of spiralling US debt
Can they be reversed if Democrats gain control of Congress and eventually the Executive?
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/117217226633158713
53-minute special
#Trump camp mismanagement of #USEconomy, amid $40 trillion Federal debt, failing #IranWar, and Trump family’s profits and grift from Donald in White House
Consequences of spiralling US debt
Can they be reversed if Democrats gain control of Congress and eventually the Executive?
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/117217226633158713
53-minute special
#Trump camp mismanagement of #USEconomy, amid $40 trillion Federal debt, failing #IranWar, and Trump family’s profits and grift from Donald in White House
Consequences of spiralling US debt
Can they be reversed if Democrats gain control of Congress and eventually the Executive?
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EA-CEO Retort VideoCast: #Trump Family Profits Amid America’s $40 Trillion Debt (Scott Lucas with Tim El-Sheikh)
#TrumpGrift #Crypto #USEconomy
https://eaworldview.com/2026/09/trump-profits-40-trillion-debt/
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EA-CEO Retort VideoCast: #Trump Family Profits Amid America’s $40 Trillion Debt (Scott Lucas with Tim El-Sheikh)
#TrumpGrift #Crypto #USEconomy
https://eaworldview.com/2026/09/trump-profits-40-trillion-debt/
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EA-CEO Retort VideoCast: #Trump Family Profits Amid America’s $40 Trillion Debt (Scott Lucas with Tim El-Sheikh)
#TrumpGrift #Crypto #USEconomy
https://eaworldview.com/2026/09/trump-profits-40-trillion-debt/
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EA-CEO Retort VideoCast: #Trump Family Profits Amid America’s $40 Trillion Debt (Scott Lucas with Tim El-Sheikh)
#TrumpGrift #Crypto #USEconomy
https://eaworldview.com/2026/09/trump-profits-40-trillion-debt/
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EA-CEO Retort VideoCast: #Trump Family Profits Amid America’s $40 Trillion Debt (Scott Lucas with Tim El-Sheikh)
#TrumpGrift #Crypto #USEconomy
https://eaworldview.com/2026/09/trump-profits-40-trillion-debt/
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‘Inept, incompetent, craven’: Scott Bessent struggles to clean up the president’s mess
By David Smith in WashingtonThere’s little optimism about treasury secretary’s ability to handle Trump’s tariffs, Iran sanctions and colossal US debt
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/29/scott-bessant-us-economy-donald-trump
#USeconomy #Trumptariffs #Canada #Iran #DonaldTrump #Trumpadministration #Bonds #Tariffs #Economics #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #USpolitics #USnews #Americas #Worldnews #TheGuardian #DavidSmithinWashington
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/265729/ Deflation Could Hit US Economy by 2030 Due to Iran War: Strategist #AlternativeEnergy #BondYield #decade #deflation #disinflation #InflationProblem #Iran #market #MarkoPapic #price #ReasonJapan #RecentYear #SupplyChain #US #UsEconomy #WorldEconomy
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Paul Krugman & Jared Bernstein on US debt
https://youtu.be/XnHxzDcfmw4?si=d41xntuRNsSkyh17Sanity and decency rather than hysteria or complacency in this discussion of US debt.
It will be helpful viewing for Americans worrying about the size of the debt and salutary for Democrats and progressives when thinking about policy priorities for a post-Trump USA.
When discussing the current and projected level of US debt, always....
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Republicans Break the Economy, Democrats Fix It—Why Does America Keep Forgetting?
Democrats repeatedly inherit Republican economic wreckage. History, GDP data, jobs, and inflation expose the myth that Republicans manage the economy better.
#barackObama #BillClinton #capitalism #DemocraticParty #Democrats #DonaldTrump #economicGrowth #EconomicInequality #EconomicPolicy #GDP #GeorgeWBush #GreatRecession #incomeInequality #inflation #jobGrowth #joeBiden #KShapedEconomy #Labor #middleClass #PaulWaldman #progressiveEconomics #RepublicanParty #republicans #SupplySideEconomics #trickleDownEconomics #TrumpEconomy #USEconomy #Unemployment #wages #workingClass https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-p2U -
Why are progressives winning across the United States? It’s not complicated | Bernie Sanders
By Bernie SandersPoll after poll shows the same thing. The American people know that the current economic system is rigged
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/19/poll-progressive-candidates-election-economy
#USpolitics #USnews #BernieSanders #Democrats #USeconomy #AIartificialintelligence #Climatecrisis #USforeignpolicy #USunions #UShealthcare #SuperPacs #USpoliticalfinancing #TheGuardian #BernieSanders
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Why are progressives winning across the United States? It’s not complicated | Bernie Sanders https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/19/poll-progressive-candidates-election-economy #UsPolitics #UsNews #BernieSanders #Democrats #UsEconomy #AiArtificialIntelligence #ClimateCrisis #UsForeignPolicy #UsUnions #UsHealthcare #SuperPacs #UsPoliticalFinancing
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“It’s the economy, stupid”*…
Source and backgroundMany Americans take pride in having the largest economy in the world… which, per the chart above, by one measure we do.
But then, if we adjust for population– calculate per capita– the picture changes…
Source and backgroundAnd we note both that, on a PP basis, the U.S. would be lower and, more fundamentally, that the standing of the U.S. is slipping over time.
If we dive more deeply still, the picture complicates further…
Source and backgroundThis last chart illustrates the wealth inequality in the U.S., which drops from 2nd to 28th when wealth is measured by the median instead of the average… a wealth gap that has been growing since 1985 (and that is combined with an income gap that has been growing since 1980). For more, see World Inequality Database.
* James Carville
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As we search for the source of that smell, we might recall that it was on this date in 1549 that Robert Kett agreed to head a group of rebels in the English county of Norfolk during the reign of Tudor king Edward VI. The rebels were incensed by enclosure (the fencing off of common lands by wealthy landlords, as a product of which many peasants lost access to grazing, fuel, and small plots they had long used), along with rising rents, inflation, unemployment, and declining wages; as a response, they began destroying fences. One of their early targets was yeoman Robert Kett who, instead of resisting the rebels, agreed to their demands and offered to lead them.
Kett and his forces, joined by recruits from the city of Norwich and the surrounding countryside and numbering some 16,000, stormed Norwich and took the city at the end of July. They were besieged by, then routed, a Royal Army detachment led by the Marquess of Northampton who had been sent by the government to suppress the uprising.
But what became known as “Kett’s Rebellion” ended on August 27, when the rebels were defeated by an army under the leadership of the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Dussindale. Kett was captured, held in the Tower of London, tried for treason, and hanged from the walls of Norwich Castle on December 7.
Robert Kett and his followers under the Oak of Reformation on Mousehold Heath. from Kett’s Rebellion in Norfolk (1859) source #culture #economicInequality #economics #enclosure #history #income #inequality #KettSRebellion #politics #RobertKett #USEconomy #wealth -
Alan Greenspan's long era of economic stability masked decisions that helped fuel the financial excesses leading to the 2008 crisis. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/01/world/greenspan-deflated-his-authority/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #alangreenspan #us #useconomy #fed #paulvolcker #benbernanke #jeromepowell #interestrates
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Alan Greenspan's long era of economic stability masked decisions that helped fuel the financial excesses leading to the 2008 crisis. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/01/world/greenspan-deflated-his-authority/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #alangreenspan #us #useconomy #fed #paulvolcker #benbernanke #jeromepowell #interestrates
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Alan Greenspan's long era of economic stability masked decisions that helped fuel the financial excesses leading to the 2008 crisis. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/01/world/greenspan-deflated-his-authority/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #alangreenspan #us #useconomy #fed #paulvolcker #benbernanke #jeromepowell #interestrates
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Alan Greenspan's long era of economic stability masked decisions that helped fuel the financial excesses leading to the 2008 crisis. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/01/world/greenspan-deflated-his-authority/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #alangreenspan #us #useconomy #fed #paulvolcker #benbernanke #jeromepowell #interestrates
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Racism Is Costing America Everything: Caller Exposes the Economic Truth
A caller exposes how racism drains resources, divides workers, and keeps Americans struggling while elites benefit from economic inequality.
#capitalism #EconomicInequality #EconomicJustice #ProgressivePolitics #racism #socialJustice #systemicRacism #USEconomy #WealthGap #workingClass https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oT1 -
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We were hoping for the summer of love, or at the very least, the summer of ice cream and going to the beach, but alas, @damemagazine tells us, it’s the summer of stagflation. Kaz Weida explains the difference between this and a common-or-garden recession, the signs that indicate the U.S. is going in that direction, and lessons from the past about how to survive the squeeze.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/05/20/the-summer-of-stagflation-is-here/
#Stagflation #Inflation #Economics #Tariffs #USPolitics #USEconomy #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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US Existing Home Sales for September came in at 3.84M, lower than both the consensus estimate and the previous month's figure of 3.88M. The MoM decline was 1.0%, an improvement from the prior drop of 2.0%.
#US #RealEstate #HousingMarket #HomeSales #USEconomy #MarketTrends #RealEstateNews #InvestmentInsights
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