[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #572: sleaze

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The president looks to blame Democrats and the Fed for declines in the stock market. Analysts cite many other explanations.

President Donald Trump is setting up a simple strategy if markets and the economy cool over the next two years: Blame Democrats and the Fed.

In recent days, Trump and his senior advisers have repeatedly argued that recent turbulence in the stock market reflects investor fear that Democrats will retake the House in the midterm elections next week. “If you want your Stocks to go down, I strongly suggest voting Democrat,” Trump tweeted Tuesday. And he has repeatedly bashed the Federal Reserve in recent interviews for its modest campaign of rate hikes.

The Trump campaign’s closing ad of the midterm cycle — using footage from the 2008 financial crisis — suggests that handing power to Democrats would bring back sky-high unemployment. “I think election risk is a big part of this correction,” Larry Kudlow, Trump’s top economic adviser, said in an interview. “The market doesn’t want to see an overturning of the business tax cuts or the deregulation or the energy boom. Until this is settled, it’s going to be hard.”

Economists and market analysts say these arguments bear little connection to reality.

Instead, they note that the economy is following a pattern many predicted when Trump and Congress slashed corporate tax rates last year: a period of faster growth followed by a return to the pace of around 2 to 3 percent that has persisted for nearly a decade with annual deficits rising.

Market analysts and traders also attribute much of the recent volatility in stock prices to fear over Trump’s bitter trade war with China and concern that corporate profits have hit their high point for the current economic expansion, which is now in its tenth year and approaching the longest expansion on record. Panic over Democratic gains in Congress does not rank high on the list of worries.

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Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 01:32 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump launches early blame game on markets and the economy

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Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 01:54 schreef Tweek het volgende:
Mochten de democraten over een week winnen, dan is van af die dag alles hun schuld.

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The deficit increased by 17% compared to 2017 and is the largest deficit since 2012.

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Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 01:54 schreef Tweek het volgende:
Al zullen die weer even hard achter Trump staan als ze over een week winnen.

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NateSilver538 twitterde op woensdag 31-10-2018 om 02:46:23 Not following this Jacob Wohl stuff in detail but seems like some Zeno's Paradox thing where whenever you think you've reached the asymptote of stupidity it somehow becomes 50% stupider. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 09:12 schreef speknek het volgende:
Is toch te bizar voor woorden dat er nog "fiscal conservatives" bij de Republikeinen zitten? Volstrekt niet serieus te nemen.

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Op dinsdag 30 oktober 2018 18:29 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Daar moet een nieuwe commissie van het Huis ook maar eens naar kijken. Als ze gewerkt heeft terwijl het niet mocht moet ze uiteraard gewoon vertrekken.

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‘Christian Rabbi’ From Pence Rally Was Defrocked Years Ago: Report

Loren Jacobs, the “Christian rabbi” whose prayer with Vice President Mike Pence on Monday night infuriated Jewish leaders in the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, was reportedly defrocked 15 years ago. Jacobs, a leader of Messianic Judaism, which is widely seen as a variation on Christian theology, had already come under fire from critics who questioned why Pence would invite a rabbi who is not Jewish to pray for the Jewish victims of Saturday’s anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue. Now, according to NBC News, it appears he is not even recognized as a rabbi in Messianic Judaism. “Loren Jacobs was stripped of his rabbinic ordination by the UMJC in 2003, after our judicial board found him guilty of libel,” Monique Brumbach, a spokeswoman for the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations, told NBC News late Tuesday. Brumbach did not give details on who Jacobs had allegedly libeled. GOP congressional candidate Lena Epstein, who said she’d invited Jacobs to Pence’s rally as a “sign of unity,” has yet to comment on news of Jacobs’ defrocking.

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AP twitterde op woensdag 31-10-2018 om 15:01:02 BREAKING: Turkish prosecutor says Saudi journalist was strangled as soon as he entered consulate; body dismembered and disposed of. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 17:15 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Ja maar heb je gezien dat Iran iemand in Canada probeerde te vermoorden? De échte vijand is Iran, daar moeten we keihard tegen zijn, en kunnen we Saudi-Arabië tegen gebruiken

-Trump

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Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 18:01 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:
Ik kan even geen foto posten en hoop dat dit nog niet is gedeeld. Ben&Jerry's heeft een nieuwe smaak. Pecan Resist. Onderop de deksel staat een bericht tegen Trump.

Eet smakelijk!

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Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 18:52 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Wat is dat bericht dan?

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Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 18:52 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Wat is dat bericht dan?

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 31-10-2018 om 20:25:29 #JOBSNOTMOBS! VOTE REPUBLICAN NOW!! https://t.co/wso9ZHIvyF reageer retweet

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ddale8 twitterde op woensdag 31-10-2018 om 22:05:06 From the Center for Responsive Politics: women have donated $308 million to Democratic congressional candidates this cycle, up from $93 million in 2014 and $142 million in 2016. https://t.co/5Va7KgqLAz https://t.co/4us9Wa42DT reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 21:59 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Misschien een goede voor de OP:

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Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 21:44 schreef Chewie het volgende:

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de GOP beschikt dan ook al enige decennia niet meer over een acceptabel niveau, dat is ook wel te merken aan zijn fanbase hier op FOK!

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JessicaChasmar twitterde op dinsdag 30-10-2018 om 14:32:49 Actor James Cromwell warns of 'revolution': 'There will be blood in the streets' if Democrats lose https://t.co/kp9VQcn9Z6 @washtimes reageer retweet

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I love that literally everyone is promoting actually registering to vote, but it’s never how to vote or the steps to voting or what you do next after you’ve registered to vote. After that, it kind of just drops off and you’re left in the dark, like, I don’t know what to do next, you know?