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[nycfan]

 

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[heelinhell]

So in 2024 we added over 2 million jobs

In 2025 we added less than 600,000 jobs

I'm not an economist. Is this a good trend ?

 

[pspsps]

Money after money at this time in the form of improved balance sheets due to layoffs and speculation.

 

[1moretimeagain]

So in 2024 we added over 2 million jobs

In 2025 we added less than 600,000 jobs

I'm not an economist. Is this a good trend ?

What I find most concerning looking forward is how dismal the jobs numbers have been despite GDP growth being strong.

 

[ChapelHillSooner]

So the website I created to look for insider trading via options on SPY triggered yesterday morning. I have not bought options since April but did $250 yesterday. These are two day options. It got to $500 and I chickened out and sold. They would be over $1000 now.

The big PUT option buy was bought at 10 AM. The fed decision was 2 PM I believe. It could have been someone just guessing but this is a trigger that hasn't hit since April. So I was like I'll buy $250 of them at about 2% OOM.

 

[Bigs23]

Just more lies.

I would imagine more companies are doing like mine and laying people off to cover the cost of the tariffs.

Only thousands? Not millions?

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[altmin]

Stockpiling vs boycotts = trade deficit

 

[nycfan]

He can’t decide what to do (and it is a thorny issue) but this is close to a reversal of earlier promises about getting home prices down.

 

[ChileG]

So in 2024 we added over 2 million jobs

In 2025 we added less than 600,000 jobs

I'm not an economist. Is this a good trend ?

Jobs added in 2024 were because business were optimistic that Trump would win.

Jobs in 2025 are because it takes a long time to fix Biden’s disastrous economy.

 

[ChileG]

Trumpanzee’s supported tariffs because they claimed it would reduce trade deficits and bring back manufacturing.
Experts said the opposite would happen.
Trumpanzees need to stop listening to Trump and listen to experts.

 

[nycfan]

 

[superrific]

What 18 trillion? what is she talking about? That's about 60% of GDP so yeah, it would cause a boom (and inflation) if it showed up.

 

[mpaer]

What 18 trillion? what is she talking about? That's about 60% of GDP so yeah, it would cause a boom (and inflation) if it showed up.

Tariff collections they claim

 

[superrific]

Tariff collections they claim

18 trillion? It's like 200 billion. I know they lie and exaggerate at these things (Trump saved 100 million lives by bombing fishing boats) but it's still weird.

 

[heelinhell]

I've been saying this for months. I thought Trump said 20 trillion, but 18 trillion is not too shabby !

So the question is how to return that 18 trillion to the American people

I say we should issue every man, woman, and child a one-time tax free check for $60,000 because we every day Americans know better how to manage that money than Congress, Trump's crime family, and his elite cronies.

 

[Purple Nurple]

What 18 trillion? what is she talking about? That's about 60% of GDP so yeah, it would cause a boom (and inflation) if it showed up.

I feel like this is the number that he claims he has negotiated to be invested in this country.