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 Everyone’s retirement funds took a $33K hit (on average)

Not Charles Schwab.  He made $2 Billion after the Orange One said it’s a good time to buy.

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... We are going to need to greatly lower our standard of living.

Ideally, the key is to lower the Cost of Living - with minimal lowering of our standard of living - not an easy task.  The CoL has aggressively shot up when government deregulation became a mantra.  Guess who started that?   (Hint: There was money to be made by deregulation.)

Anybody can short the US  and/or scoop in like a vulture when the opportunity arises. Edmund Safra almost doubled his net worth when Reagan gave his state of the union speech. The last thing Reagan said was "and now about the economy." Right then and there he swapped US dollars for Swiss francs and made a killing as Reagan wrecked things, kind of like right now. 

All the best,
Nonoise

the problem is, it is only political in your eyes and many maga people’s eye. It’s not political. It’s factual. What makes it political is that we have to lie about it.
 

+1 @gano 

Cheap banana plugs are icky

@gano 

I am sorry I triggered you. I have intention to argue with you, totally pointless.

You write nothing but word salad gibberish.  Great demonstration of intellect, trotting out the tried and true lefty woke "triggered" label. Of course you don't want to argue because you have nothing to offer but empty accusations.