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Prairie Gates

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8. The post-election stock market rally has mostly dissipated already

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Wed Jan 15, 2025, 02:08 PM

Jan 15

I do think people have very high expectations of the economy under Trump and if it fails to materialize things will get ugly sooner rather than later. Trump and Co. will juke the numbers, of course, because they are con artists and liars, but you can't fool people's pocketbooks.

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