"401K people"

К Liberation Day как раз.

Это еще вчерашнее видео, не сегодняшнее. 22 секунды всего, так что послушайте.

Когда Америка воевала, американцы ради победы отдавали нажитое непосильным трудом...

BREAKING: In an insane moment, Fox News' Harris Faulkner suggests that the "401K people, those retirees" just have to suck it up while dear leader Trump's tariffs cause severe financial hardship, because patriotism.

The gaslighting is turned up to 11.pic.twitter.com/JzWItlvMOH

— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) April 1, 2025

Я еще раз повторю. Трамп, как никакой другой политик, стремится исполнять свои обещания... Вот этот весь shit, это не просто не то, что обещал Трамп, это прямая противоположность. "Затянем пояса ради будущего" — это близко не Трамп.

Возможно, hardcore трамписты готовы на любое затягивание поясов — и я даже в этом не уверен — но, в любом случае, они в явном меньшинстве.

401K people — Jesus Christ.

P.S. Что касается Liberation Day, то пишут, что "this is, fair to say, worse than the worst case scenario than many in the market expected." Посмотрим, что еще остается?

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"Reciprocal Tariffs"

Процитирую эту цепочку твитов:

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

Even given that it's Trump, I cannot believe they said "We'll just divide the trade deficit by imports and tell people that's the tariff rate." And then they decided to set our tariffs by just cutting that totally made-up rate in half! This is so dumb and deceptive.

How in God's name did Scott Bessent agree to sign off on this?

This tweet is correct, but it's actually worse than I thought: in calculating the tariff rate, Trump's people only used the trade deficit in goods. So even though we run a trade surplus in services with the world, those exports don't count as far as Trump is concerned.

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"Лучший друг Израиля"

LOL

Economic officials in Israel are in complete shock over the Trump administration's decision to impose a 17% tariff on Israel. "We are in shock. We were sure that the decision to completely cancel tariffs on imports from the U.S. would prevent this move. But it didn't happen." https://t.co/9FiKgNdTFn

— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) April 2, 2025

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