estimates by the independent Congressional Budget Office, which has estimated the project could take 20 years and cost $524 billion.

that’s how much.

It means the government’s borrowing costs will increase. It will increase mortgage rates, borrowing rates for individuals, for businesses, municipalities and states. It will increase the costs of everything.

This hurts everybody’s wallet.

It’s not even going to this - publishers are pulling games, tv series and movies for various reasons.

American court system has become a monkey court.

This is essentially adding another layer of tax or tariffs on imports, and more impediments to global trade. Basically, Trump is determined to stall trade with the world and fuck the economy.

It’s a metaphor, not “literal” army. And it is in the millions. Many are unseen as they come out when the streets are empty doing the garbage picking and cleaning, etc.

Japan is relying more and more on a shadow army of millions of imported foreign workers that is slowly changing its populace. Japan could see a right wing backlash to the changing demographics at some point as we’ve seen in Europe.

This is so stupid. He announce tariffs, markets tank. He pauses, markets rebound. He then imposes tariffs, markets tank. He pauses… oh he’s jerking off everyone. got it.

No it’s down again.

It turned positive on some rumor of a pause in tariffs. Whitehouse denied it on CNBC and markets tanked again.

LOL Trump wanted to keep this “trade war” to goods only. He never mentioned the surplus US has in services trade. This will really hurt US below the belt.

I know it’s disappointing. I guess European sales declines were off-set by increases in sales elsewhere.

Elon takes another L!

!Whitelistsilver

If I win I will donate to the Red Cross for Myanmar Earthquake victims. Let’s do it lemmy!

If I recall, fidelity wrote off most of its investment in twitter less than a year after the acquisition: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/09/30/elon-musks-x-is-now-worth-around-a-fifth-of-the-44-billion-he-paid-for-it-fidelity-says/

Bird flu. millions of chickens are having to be euthanized. entire farms.

You have to remember that he wasn’t alone in purchasing twitter. He brought others along with him. Now that value of twitter has gone down the tube, I’m sure he’s got a ton of unhappy investors on his hand screaming at every quarter’s results. He’s trying to recoup what they paid for by giving them shares in AI company. And in turn artificially raise the value of the AI company privately as well. It establishes a benchmark for AI company’s valuation for later private investors into that company.

What a fucking idiot! And she is heading CIA?