• scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    We are witnessing history in the making, people! Keep documenting and writing it down, like the ancient greek historians. The US has radically changed under the new president Trump 2024 -> 2025 and we will need to study the effects on our world and global economy closely. Historic times indeed.

    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
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      6 hours ago

      Not that historica, so far it seems to imitate the 2008 financial crisis crash. But yeah, the financial system almost died then. With Trump, the whole global economic system could very well end in the wood chipper.

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        59 minutes ago

        Could be even worse now, because in the 2008 financial crisis the US government was actively combatting the crisis by putting trillions of dollars in the economy. In this case it’s the US gov driving the madness.

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          11 minutes ago

          And the fed probably won’t let the government dump money into the system because there gonna be afraid of these tarriffs causing inflation.

      • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
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        6 hours ago

        The thing to understanding crashes is that they’re a crude signal of an underlying reality. Not a thing in themselves.

        This isn’t like the 2008 crash, or any other, because the reality that’s causing the number to go down is totally different. Except maybe the great depression. It’s a bit like that.