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Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America: The pain coming from trade and immigration restrictions cannot be postponed forever
The Economist ^ | 10/09/2025

Posted on 10/10/2025 11:10:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 10/10/2025 11:10:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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They forgot to mention the Schumer Shutdown?


2 posted on 10/10/2025 11:13:49 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: SeekAndFind
The Economist...published by Europe's Swamp.
3 posted on 10/10/2025 11:14:32 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: SeekAndFind

Commie Brit rag only has America’s best interests.


4 posted on 10/10/2025 11:14:37 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: SeekAndFind

“The Economist “. Another deceptively named leftist snake pit.


5 posted on 10/10/2025 11:15:57 AM PDT by iamgalt
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https://archive.ph/cfYQJ


6 posted on 10/10/2025 11:17:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: SeekAndFind
I’m thinking this article was written by a free trader who is not adversely affected by “free trade”.

It would be interesting to see how he’d react if his job was outsourced to someone in China who makes $10 a day.

Oh, and one more thing:


7 posted on 10/10/2025 11:18:06 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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Unless used as a tax source (MUCH preferred instead of income tax) tariffs should only be a temporary stop-gap to get fledging domestic industry competitive. We’ve had 250 years to become competitive and we are well beyond that.

OK, Trump has been using tariffs to reverse stupid trade deals. (But after all, the American consumer pays for the tariff.)

But enough already. Get the federal gov’t, unions, and idiotic minimum wage millstone blocks off our back so America can do what it does best: Freely pursue marketplace opportunities which will launch the economy into the stratosphere.


8 posted on 10/10/2025 11:19:59 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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The Economist, they entertain that men can be women.....that by default means you collectively as an organization are insane and should be ignored.


9 posted on 10/10/2025 11:20:29 AM PDT by pburgh01
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The E-Communist.


10 posted on 10/10/2025 11:20:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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Pain from immigration restrictions? Like not having 30 million non-citizens getting free housing, free phones, food stamps and Welfare?


11 posted on 10/10/2025 11:21:54 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Trump will mail out Trump checks if MAGA demands relief.

Most will eat beans and cornbread for every meal if that’s what it takes to get the train back on the track and moving in the right direction.


12 posted on 10/10/2025 11:22:07 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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Who writes this dog pile?

So awful it’s funny, literally LOL


13 posted on 10/10/2025 11:26:00 AM PDT by Veto! (-)
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To: SeekAndFind

This should go in “Humor”.


14 posted on 10/10/2025 11:26:09 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SeekAndFind

Years ago when I lived in the UK, the Economist was one of my prime reads. Today? Boy, they have pointed their nose 60 degrees down and lighted the burner.

But somethings have remained the same - the Guardian is still a joke.


15 posted on 10/10/2025 11:26:34 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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They really need to change the name of their publication to The Grifter, because we all know that that’s what corporate-state “economists” really are.


16 posted on 10/10/2025 11:28:39 AM PDT by bakeneko
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The Ecommunist hasn’t been right about a damned thing in twenty years. Might as well give it Friedman’s Nobel prize.


17 posted on 10/10/2025 11:29:43 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: SeekAndFind

What is frustrating is how difficult it is to confront these writers. They spew garbage that is easily disputable, but are still given a venue to commit verbal fraud.


18 posted on 10/10/2025 11:32:38 AM PDT by Son-Joshua ( )
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“Trump will mail out Trump checks if MAGA demands relief?”

Like those DOGE and Tariff checks? Be waiting a long time...

Trump hadn’t done a darned thing to help Citizens...Lots of talk but no actions.


19 posted on 10/10/2025 11:33:22 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: SeekAndFind

The article proves that there’s always gonna be someone, somewhere, bitching about something.


20 posted on 10/10/2025 11:33:58 AM PDT by AFB-XYZ (( We have two options: 1. Stand up, or 2. Bend over))
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