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2025-06-27 Economy

Trump has 'outsmarted all of us' admits backpedaling economist who bashed President's bold plan

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-27 00:23|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [189 views ] Top

#1 Trump touts massive $88 billion haul from tariffs as he works on trade deals with China, others

Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-27 02:23|| 2025-06-27 02:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Trump Effect: GE Appliances to Shift Washing Machine Production from China to Kentucky

Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-27 02:44|| 2025-06-27 02:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Bit slow Bubba, or this is an official surrender, because I heard a couple three weeks ago a radio short which went something like, "After months of being told otherwise, Americans are trying to come to terms with why prices have not increased."

Yes it is a loaded statement because media sucks, but there it is.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-06-27 10:26|| 2025-06-27 10:26|| Front Page Top

#4 The real competence of an economist is in the ability to explain why his predictions didn't came through.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-06-27 10:30|| 2025-06-27 10:30|| Front Page Top

#5 "Economics exists only to make astrology seem respectable."

Posted by Matt 2025-06-27 11:11|| 2025-06-27 11:11|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ I LOLd

Posted by Frank G 2025-06-27 11:41|| 2025-06-27 11:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Could be that Trump outsmarted these people because they're not as smart as they think they are.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-06-27 12:31|| 2025-06-27 12:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Well if you can't think of economic decisions not made by snooty leftist academics, you're bound to be wrong 99% of the time.

Posted by Silentbrick 2025-06-27 16:58|| 2025-06-27 16:58|| Front Page Top

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