Week One

[djsimp]

No one going to mention that Dow Jones hit 20,000 in week 1?

Well no, we were all waiting on you to mention, like duh.

You know, the nice the thing about the stock market is that it reports truth without bias. Like GH mentioned, the business world and the middle class have optimism and confidence.

[Token]

The significance of the stock market isn't to suggest that Trump did it all by him self.  Rather, it's to show that the world didn't crash because the worst man in the history of the world was elected president. 

The economy didn't crash, the rich entertainers who said they would leave are still fucking here and we still talking about the same shit. 

[WiregrassTiger]

The significance of the stock market isn't to suggest that Trump did it all by him self.  Rather, it's to show that the world didn't crash because the worst man in the history of the world was elected president. 

The economy didn't crash, the rich entertainers who said they would leave are still fucking here and we still talking about the same shit.

Other than the pinko commies that are still on the x whining about losing (when they were always gay losers anyway) I've enjoyed this week.

[CCTAU]

The Dow jones was also at a big low at the start of his presidency during the recession. It was going to go up regardless to a degree per the ebb n flow nature of it all.

Much of the reason it was at a big low was there was no confidence in what he was bringing. It had started to dive due to the recession. But up until maybe two years ago, we were a crippled economy. That is why we had the slowest growth in a long time. Companies just would not start anything new. They were never sure when the great ONE was going to throw out another regulation. By the end of his last term, companies knew there was nothing he could really do, so they started investing a bit more. Trump is seen as a friend to business. Therefore confidence is high. The stock market is continuing its run up.
So in all reality, the market should have corrected itself even faster. If not for the great ONE.

[dallaswareagle]

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-01-27/gdp-growth-slows-to-19-percent-in-obama-administrations-final-days?int=u.s.-news%20information-rec


Republicans and Obama-critics have been quick to point out that the recently retired commander-in-chief is the first president in the post-war era to have never seen economic growth hit at least a 3 percent pace in any year he was in office.

[AUChizad]

#Memez

[chinook]

#Memez

then don't buy imported goods from Mexico.  buy American you socialist swine.  oh and don't forget about the trade deficit we have...don't quote me but we might be the only superpower economy that has one. 

[CCTAU]

I guess now a new VW Jetta = 4,232,000 tea bags...

[Godfather]

I guess now a new VW Jetta = 4,232,000 tea bags...

I'm gonna teabag the lot of ya

[dallaswareagle]

[wesfau2]

then don't buy imported goods from Mexico.

Are we sure this tax proposal applies only to Mexican imports?

[Snaggletiger]

Are we sure this tax proposal applies only to Mexican imports?

Of course.  It'll be juuuuust enough to build that wall.  Then, we're taxing those damn Chinese and all their crazy fireworks. 

[Godfather]

Are we sure this tax proposal applies only to Mexican imports?

Cialis is cheaper there though.

[AUTailgatingRules]

Of course.  It'll be juuuuust enough to build that wall.  Then, we're taxing those damn Chinese and all their crazy fireworks.

And Ramen Noodles

[AUChizad]

then don't buy imported goods from Mexico.  buy American you socialist swine.  oh and don't forget about the trade deficit we have...don't quote me but we might be the only superpower economy that has one.

Just because you plug your ears and think you don't doesn't mean you don't.

If you eat vegetables at all, you probably do and don't even know it. We import about $5 billion worth every year. And another billion and a half in processed fruits in vegetables. About $2 billion in snack foods. About $3 billion in beer and wine.

Ford, GM, Walmart, Best Buy are all going to be hit hard with this tax.

If you can't understand that direct, obvious effect, there's no hope in trying to explain the ripple effect blunt tariffs like that have on an economy as a whole. You'd have to be an actual conservative with principles, not a cheerleader for President dipshit to already know that.

Not to mention what this will do to Mexico's economy. BUT FUCK DA MEXICANS AMIRIGHT?!? I know you'll never be convinced of this cause science and studies and facts and learnin' are for fags, but currently more people emigrate from the US to Mexico than the other way around. Immigration from Mexico to the US peaked about a decade ago and has been dropping since. Expect that to turn back around starkly in the other direction once we cripple their economy again. Oh, but the wall will stop them, because it has magical powers and they can't just fly over it, or tunnel under it, or go around it.

Let alone the horrible optics of building a fucking wall to keep people out of our country. What other examples of this are there in history? North and South Korea? East and West Berlin? I remember Ronald Reagan tearing down the wall as a symbol of freedom and prosperity, and now the same people who cheered that are now cheering for the exact opposite to happen right here in America.

What the fuck happened to conservatism?

[wesfau2]

Just because you plug your ears and think you don't doesn't mean you don't.

If you eat vegetables at all, you probably do and don't even know it. We import about $5 billion worth every year. And another billion and a half in processed fruits in vegetables. About $2 billion in snack foods. About $3 billion in beer and wine.

Ford, GM, Walmart, Best Buy are all going to be hit hard with this tax.

If you can't understand that direct, obvious effect, there's no hope in trying to explain the ripple effect blunt tariffs like that have on an economy as a whole. You'd have to be an actual conservative with principles, not a cheerleader for President dipshit to already know that.

Not to mention what this will do to Mexico's economy. BUT FUCK DA MEXICANS AMIRIGHT?!? I know you'll never be convinced of this cause science and studies and facts and learnin' are for fags, but currently more people emigrate from the US to Mexico than the other way around. Immigration from Mexico to the US peaked about a decade ago and has been dropping since. Expect that to turn back around starkly in the other direction once we cripple their economy again. Oh, but the wall will stop them, because it has magical powers and they can't just fly over it, or tunnel under it, or go around it.

Let alone the horrible optics of building a fucking wall to keep people out of our country. What other examples of this are there in history? North and South Korea? East and West Berlin? I remember Ronald Reagan tearing down the wall as a symbol of freedom and prosperity, and now the same people who cheered that are now cheering for the exact opposite to happen right here in America.

What the fuck happened to conservatism?

Fuck optics, you pussy!

Actually,  I agree with all of this.

[Snaggletiger]

And Ramen Noodles

Whoa Whoa Whoa, there cowboy.  You want college kids to starve?

[Kaos]

Just because you plug your ears and think you don't doesn't mean you don't.

If you eat vegetables at all, you probably do and don't even know it. We import about $5 billion worth every year. And another billion and a half in processed fruits in vegetables. About $2 billion in snack foods. About $3 billion in beer and wine.

Ford, GM, Walmart, Best Buy are all going to be hit hard with this tax.

If you can't understand that direct, obvious effect, there's no hope in trying to explain the ripple effect blunt tariffs like that have on an economy as a whole. You'd have to be an actual conservative with principles, not a cheerleader for President dipshit to already know that.

Not to mention what this will do to Mexico's economy. BUT FUCK DA MEXICANS AMIRIGHT?!? I know you'll never be convinced of this cause science and studies and facts and learnin' are for fags, but currently more people emigrate from the US to Mexico than the other way around. Immigration from Mexico to the US peaked about a decade ago and has been dropping since. Expect that to turn back around starkly in the other direction once we cripple their economy again. Oh, but the wall will stop them, because it has magical powers and they can't just fly over it, or tunnel under it, or go around it.

Let alone the horrible optics of building a fucking wall to keep people out of our country. What other examples of this are there in history? North and South Korea? East and West Berlin? I remember Ronald Reagan tearing down the wall as a symbol of freedom and prosperity, and now the same people who cheered that are now cheering for the exact opposite to happen right here in America.

What the fuck happened to conservatism?

Did you take any history classes?

[War Eagle!!!]

Did you take any history classes?

Or fucking business classes?

All part of negotiation.

This whole thing is a stupid argument because nothing has happened yet. It's all part of negotiations. When he ACTUALLY imposes a 20% tariff from ALL imports like you are suggesting, then I will worry. But right now? I see it as negotiations to make trade deals more fair for the American people.

[Snaggletiger]

Two things about that article.  First, huge difference in protecting your own borders from other countries and walls being built to separate one country due to civil war/strife.  Not the same at all. 

Second, and this is a question I don't know the answer to.  Are we talking about legal or illegal immigration?  I doubt U.S. Citizens are sneaking across the border under cover of nightfall.  Are they comparing how many U.S. Citizens to Mexican Citizens concerning how many are going through proper channels to enter the other's country?