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"This is not a thriving middle class throwing around money. It’s escapism for a stressed out American public trying to keep holiday traditions alive in an economy where prices climb faster than wages."
#Trump #economy #BlackFriday #prices #inflation #ballroom #EconomicElites #SuperRich
/5
"If you look at the record numbers [of Black Friday sales] – $11.8 billion – Trump will paint a picture of a booming, confident consumer base.
But Adobe’s own data tells the true story. People are buying fewer items. hey’re leaning heavily on financing and buy now, pay later options."
~ Evan Fields
#Trump #economy #BlackFriday #prices #inflation #ballroom #EconomicElites #SuperRich
/3
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/fourth-and-democracy-billions-on
"They’re being pushed along by AI-shaped deals and aggressive mobile checkout designs to bully impulsive consumers into spending what they don’t have. And the bulk of the spending is happening online, where it’s easier to spend money you don’t fully feel when it leaves your wallet."
#Trump #economy #BlackFriday #prices #inflation #ballroom #EconomicElites #SuperRich
/4
"This is not a thriving middle class throwing around money. It’s escapism for a stressed out American public trying to keep holiday traditions alive in an economy where prices climb faster than wages."
#Trump #economy #BlackFriday #prices #inflation #ballroom #EconomicElites #SuperRich
/5
"Once completed, this gilt-drenched monstrosity of Chechen-warlord chic [the golden ballroom] will be almost twice the size of the 55,000-square-foot White House itself at 90,000 square feet. Which is insane. More than twice the size of the Taj Mahal! The square footage of the house in The Queen of Versailles! The size of a Walmart!"
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #economy #BlackFriday #prices #inflation #ballroom #EconomicElites #SuperRich
/6
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trumps-golden-ballroom-getting-bigger
"It will be able to hold 18,000 people standing, and they’ll each have five feet of personal space. And also there will be some kind of secure bunker underneath, in case Trump has to hide from protesters again. It’s sort of like Mrs. Astor’s ballroom, but for the select few to survive an apocalypse in style. Or perhaps a third inauguration."
#Trump #economy #BlackFriday #prices #inflation #ballroom #EconomicElites #SuperRich
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"The perception that Trump is handing out pardons is fueling a gold-rush. About 10,000 people filed for pardons in the first nine months of the Trump presidency, which is about two-thirds of the total pardon applications for the entire four years of the Biden administration. The gold-rush benefits Trump, but also those in his orbit who have connections to a personalist regime."
~ Don Moynihan
#Trump #economy #prices #inflation #EconomicElites #pardons #corruption
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https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the-insane-corruption
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