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There also is a world market for oil. When oil prices go up in Europe and Asia, people here pay more. Even a Trump-Energy Secretary should know this.
On the plus side, hopefully South Korea, along with Japan., and Taiwan, will know that a commitment from Donald Trump isn't worth shit and plan accordingly
It's actually easy to design mechanisms for killing corporate tax avoidance schemes, if anyone actually cared. Just tax stock returns https://t.co/mpVe5FLf7C
U.S. consumers are hit harder by rising oil prices than Europeans because we use more oil. The fact we produce it here doesn't help consumers, unless we tax the oil industry https://t.co/DZQmvyBSMk
we're up just 150k for native-born workers over the last year https://t.co/eUQjDMCvxT The growth in employment was 1.5 million 2024 to 2025, but we know Trumpers are scared of numbers
S&P is down almost 5% this year https://t.co/jJ8zHsWyLU No one thought it could be done, but Donald Trump did it!
The media treat Trump wth kid gloves because they don't want to seen as abusing someone suffering from dementia.
If the Trumpers were smart, they would blame the bad jobs numbers on the weather https://t.co/iTCQe8K3EY
There are measurement issues, and they go both ways. But what is really important for this lying hunk of shit is that whatever problems raise the measured rate of inflation now were also there UNDER Biden. Which means Trump got...
Sorry, this is misleading to the point of being dishonest. Benefits are roughly 20% of compensation. You're saying if benefits costs didn't rise at all, wages could increase more, but benefit increases have actually lagged pay in the last year...
Trump has to stop reading charts upside down. Factory construction is down around 13% after adjusting for inflation. https://t.co/YNFjjiLWfV That's only a boom in Trump's skull.
$2.55 Iowa average https://t.co/qKoxDrbRtX, but Senator Ernst promises to make up the difference compared to what you'll pay
Trump says he wants to lower taxes on the rich and raise them on middle and working class
