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It's not just a panic. Somebody on market watch was saying a number of companies are going to be bankrupt within a month. Once we get a solution to Covid-19, a heck of a lot of economic infrastructure has to be rebuilt before things get back to normal. Even then, things will be different. Some important people will be dead. Some rich people will be poor. Some poor people will be rich. Different companies will occupy the markets of current companies.

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Originally Posted by Greger
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Them that claim they understand say this one is not going to go away quite as easily as the one Obama had to deal with.

We'll see. The market desperately needed a major adjustment and the virus provided the impetus. Maybe it's the debt as Dana says. Maybe it's just a stutter in the economy and once we get past the virus panic it will all work itself out...?

I'd like to be a fly in Trump's head right now.

It would be very roomy. You could probably open up a fly resort with its own airport.


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WOW!!!

The talking heads of TV are saying that the economy is collapsing because of Trump's gross incompetence and Covid-19. Basically, Trump is destroying his own economy! So, Trump is a noted incompetent, the destroyer of his own economy that he needs to get re-elected, and, just possibly, a modern day Covid-19 carrier ("Covid Don" - modern day Typhoid Mary but for Covid-19).

There are also reports that the Trump true believers are not washing their hands, do not believe that there is a Covid-19, and are ignoring any and all suggestion as to how not to get sick from it. The only thing they are now missing is a good Trump Rally.

When all is said and done the historians are going to have a field day with this one. My one concern is that the Dems will be unable to beat Trump because they didn't want to upset anybody - except each other....

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Stocks rallied today, it could be back where it was in a week.


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‘When the country goes to hell’: 2014 video shows Trump bragging he would ‘crash the economy’ to get his way


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“You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster, then you’ll have a, you know, you’ll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great,” Trump argued.

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Originally Posted by jgw
Removing glass-steagal was the worst of it. He did it, literally, in the last minutes of his tenure. There has been any number of tires to restore it to no avail. If the Dems actually win it all my hope that restoration becomes one of the very first things they do. Perhaps the house should pass the restoration right now so they can jump on it right along with the almost 450 other bills awaiting some attention in the Senate.

By the time Clinton signed off, Glass-Steagal was already dying from a thousand small cuts administered over an almost four year period thanks to the Gingrich Congress. There was almost nothing left to sign off on.


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Economic disasters happen on Republican President watches for some reason. You would think that American public would learn that lesson.

Hmm


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Originally Posted by Jeffery J. Haas
‘When the country goes to hell’: 2014 video shows Trump bragging he would ‘crash the economy’ to get his way
Sounds about right. Trump is a whiny-assed, vindictive little bytch. Hmm


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You forgot the hand of Lawrence Summers who was the guy that was actually responsible for it.

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Originally Posted by jgw
There are also reports that the Trump true believers are not washing their hands, do not believe that there is a Covid-19, and are ignoring any and all suggestion as to how not to get sick from it. The only thing they are now missing is a good Trump Rally.

(BORROWED from anonymous source)

After two decades of listening to the Religiously Insane blame us for everything that has gone wrong:

This is God punishing Conservatives for voting in Trump.

This is God punishing Conservatives for their racism and bigotry.

This is God punishing Conservatives for turning their backs on the poor and the sick.

This is God punishing Conservatives for gunning down our children.

This is God punishing Conservatives for ignoring the homeless.

This is God punishing Conservatives for worshiping celebrities and sports figures.

This is God punishing Conservatives for loving money more than their neighbors.

This is God punishing Conservatives for following false prophets (Jim Baker, Pat Robertson, Paula White, Jerry Falwell, et al)

This is God punishing Conservatives for poisoning the planet.

This is God punishing Conservatives for our unjust judicial system.

This is God punishing Conservatives for our inhumane prisons.

This is God punishing Conservatives for lying to ourselves about reality.

This is God punishing Conservatives for twisting Her word to justify their own hatred.


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