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  • 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%.
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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

And this is the Fart of the Deal... inhale Muricans

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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,.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

or the persistent international distrust Trump has carved towards the USA for decades to come

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 17 hours ago

No fucking shit

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I mean lots of companies are declaring bankruptcy already

  • forever21
  • 23andMe
  • hooters
  • party city (2024)
  • joann
[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] MummifiedClient5000 84 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Please call it The Trumpcession.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 18 hours ago

The Trump Slump!

[–] tacobellhop@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I already coined it The Great Repression

[–] Lunar_Voyager@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

The Great Regression. The greatest, I'm told. Many people are saying it.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

The Republican Depression or Trump Depression. The Republican dust bowl also.

[–] formulaBonk@lemm.ee 33 points 1 day ago

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

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump’s gonna call it a fire sale. Him and his buddies will just get more powerful.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago

Well, that depends on us, to some extent, doesn't it?

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is almost like our glorious leader is an idiot.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or he wants to destroy America. Then he is brilliant.

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 6 points 19 hours ago

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)

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Economists do not usually speak in black and white terms like this.

Our economy is in for a bloodletting.

[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Make people desperate,

They'll more likely go to war.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They might go to war against the leaders within the country instead. Trump is really playing with fire here, messing with the gun-toting constituents of his.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Revolutions need organization. Organization needs third spaces were people can meet, discuss, and organize. Most of the US has basically no third spaces outside of churches, and this is very much by design.

[–] mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

You're currently posting to a third space

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Nah, just say that Hussein Obama did it or something stupid like that, say it's open season on the treacherous libs and they'll happily make another Kristallnacht because that is how stupid they are. They'll follow Cheeto straight into hell and then he'll abandon them there and they'll still blame Obama because please do not expect these people to have a shred of dignity to say "I was wrong"

[–] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

nah, they don't even know which direction to point those boomboom sticks, but probably Biden

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I accidentally got some of the crazy content in my feed; it seems they want to arrest Fauci.

[–] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

clearly, Fauci created COVID which is a bioweapon that isn't serious enough to employ biodefense measures against including barriers (masking) and immunizations (vaccinate), but serious enough to have triggered a recession that the present trump slump is fixing, etc. So yeah clearly Fauci's fault.

[–] mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Crash the economy and stock prices. Create a forever war for profiteering. Stick dissidents and the poor into for profit prisons. Consolidate more wealth at the top. The system is working as designed.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 30 points 1 day ago

Glad to know that GS is catching up with every other financial advisor and most of the logical everyday people who understand that making things more expensive tends to make people's financial situation worse.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We jumped the shark when they called the FBI "woke leftists" however many years ago that was.

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago

I'm really talking about the Mara Lago raid in 2023.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

Sabotaging the US economy and destroying the power of the US and EU were the jobs Trump was put in to do.

[–] pleasegoaway@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] KbSez@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So why aren't the big players on Wall Street raising hell over this?

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago

they're are vultures, hoping to buy low and sell high.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

They have lots of liquidity and are willing to take the hit to buy more at lower prices.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

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).

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