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people, not from feather bedding overreaching govern- ment officials, who are linked at the hip with Wall Street and union leaders’ money demands that continue to spiral out of control. “Trumps ‘bully’ administration seems determined to move away from a free-market consensus and predictabil- ity toward a clouded command-and-control administration with enormous federal power centered in Washington. For sledgehammer monetary decisions, Trump’s amateur dictatorship will vacillate between corporate approval and hoping to bend the people to his will. So, get ready for President Trump ratcheting up again import tariffs with trade wars and, like President Biden, doling out huge sub- sidies to big businesses. “To put America first, Trump supports an influx of profit seeking multinational companies to open shops in Amer- ica. For cross-border trade, imposed industrial tariffs will increase the cost of products, such as car parts which ac- count for about 40 percent of the average total repair bill borne by insurers, and raise premiums. Besides, Trump can’t export to allies without allowing fair trade imports! There is reciprocation. How these policies manifest is not necessarily clear, considering practical, legal, and political constraints on implementation. “While a diverse Republican coalition is jumping through hoops from dire rhetoric about Biden’s big budget spending binges with poor accountability, most consum- ers blame inflation with higher prices on corporate greed and dominating monopolies on the wealthy elites. Yet, the supply of money and its resulting value are the cause of fanning inflation. Taxing the private sector to cut inflation is like starving children to make the fat parent lose weight. The main contributors to small businesses uncertainty will be the actions of Wall Street, corporate aristocrats, gov- ernment fiat and shifting market winds. These opaque factors increase the $36 trillion federal debt, in hopes of stimulating economic growth and the nation’s security. “However, a measure of underlying growth trends is ca- ble television, once a juggernaut that propelled the share prices of traditional big media companies, has become a financial albatross. Though they remain enormously profit- able, cable TV channels are in long-term decline as view- ers replace subscriptions with app streaming services like Netflix or YouTube TV. “In California, leftist Governor Newsom, will keep chas- ing headlines as a springboard to run for U.S. President. It’s more gestures than substance. He vows to end the homeless and housing crisis, but managed to lose, then distribute $24 billion in benefits, etc. to fraudsters, many of whom were in prisons or living out of the country. New- som’s state vanity projects and local governments debts are over half a trillion dollars for unfunded healthcare and pensions from a decade of insanity. The state’s one-party rule spending on climate change, waste, corruption, and CONTINUED ON PAGE 30
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