The stock markets are in a free fall due to Tyrant Trump’s illegal smashing of federal programs, trillions of dollars in hard earned mutual funds and pension funds by working Americans have been lost. Trump has torn to bits the IRS capacity to collect tax revenues from evading super-rich and corporations and other unstable chaotic and cruel moves every day against the American people.
Meloni under rising pressure to back EU ‘bazooka’ against Trump tariffs
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Tucker Carlson
– The top 10% of Americans own 88% of equities, 88% of the stock market – The next 40% owns 12% of the stock market – The bottom 50% has debt -Summer of 2024 more Americans were using food banks than they ever have in history pic.twitter.com/Idt0l5Ivtw
Not only will higher tariffs push up the company’s costs in America, its biggest market. Retaliation could clobber its sales in China, its second-biggest https://econ.st/3RoTgMt Photo: Getty Images
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President Trump’s tariff plan is the biggest break in American trade policy in over a century. It’s also one of the most profound and harmful mistakes of the modern era. Our economics editor, @currhenry, explains why it’s so utterly deluded https://t.co/lkGqejuVR0pic.twitter.com/AJH72Xs0d6
TRUMP: “China has been hit much harder than the USA, not even close. .THIS IS AN ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, AND WE WILL WIN. HANG TOUGH, it won’t be easy, but the end result will be historic. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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