KEY POINTS

  • 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%.
  • @foggy@lemmy.world
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    674 months ago

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

    Our economy is in for a bloodletting.

    • ShadowRam
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      244 months ago

      Make people desperate,

      They’ll more likely go to war.

      • Pennomi
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        124 months ago

        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.

            • @notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world
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              54 months 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.

        • Phoenixz
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          54 months 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”

        • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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          34 months ago

          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.

      • @D_C@lemm.ee
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        64 months 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)

  • Monkey With A Shell
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    314 months 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
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    274 months ago

    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!

  • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    174 months ago

    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.

  • KbSez
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    94 months ago

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

  • @pleasegoaway@lemm.ee
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    84 months 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.

  • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    84 months ago

    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
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      24 months ago

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

  • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    84 months ago

    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
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      84 months 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).

  • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    64 months ago

    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
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      94 months ago

      I mean lots of companies are declaring bankruptcy already

      • forever21
      • 23andMe
      • hooters
      • party city (2024)
      • joann
    • @Sabin10@lemmy.world
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      44 months ago

      Meanwhile, anyone with a halfway decent high-school education, knows this is what happens when you engage in a trade war with all your major trading partners.

    • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      34 months ago

      As does much of his cabinet, it seems. That, or if they know better, they are too afraid and power-seeking to counter even the very stupidest of his “ideas”.

  • circuitfarmer
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    44 months 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.