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Allied with Trump, Elon Musk eyes radical cuts to US gov’t spending (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Deifict hawking in the US in 2024? Sounds great for global capitalism. US is THE consooming engine.

Atleast Argentina is a smaller country. Atleast Russia was disconnected from rest of the capitalist world pre 1990s.

And it's by no means "radical". Bill Clinton the neoliberal establishment guy ran budget surpluses in the 1990s, sucked money away from the (mainly poor) people and increased household debt.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

xi-pog Elon Musk doing to the US what the US usually does to foreign economies to destroy them

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds about right... My fucking god, twitter economists...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

'rapid recovery', the economy will be cut in half and stagnate there for decades. it'll be Greece but worse. I don't think it'll be very good for China and other exporting countries either at least in short term but they'll recover if they also don't do the same austerity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The EU, in GDP per capita terms, barely recovered from 2008 and the latter austerity policy. In purchase power terms, it's sunken below what it used to be before 2008, even with China's growing industry and cheaper exports driving down the prices of many consumer goods.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Critical support. Though i don't believe even reps are stupid enough to give the grenade to this particular manchild.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

imagine being dumb enough to do shock therapy to yourself