...not good news for GOP Candidates running on the Trump admin's performance...
Add this news to Trump's recent comment that 'Wall Street has been doing great' under his administration...DJT should demand a cut of Dem Election Ad spending.
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/18/mortgage-rates-treasury-bond-yields-consumer-loans.html
Trump 2.0 is a real head scratcher and hasn’t delivered in many ways, especially relative to Trump 1.0.
That'll be a winner.
Meanwhile his tax and dereg policies and SCOTUS justices are alreqdy in place and the country runs best on auto-pilot (but not so much on auto-pen).
Simultaneously, the intra-party schism between socialists and the Dem establishment will provide slapstick entertainment galore.
I'm perfectly sanguine.
an 'Intervention'...
Trump's polls might go down to single digits and it won't change a thing.
What's even better is that as he loses relevance Republicans will simply ignore him.
just the billionaire oligarchs..and the Republicans need to excise the toxicity of Trumpism and find a better way of representing Conservatism. We need BOTH parties in order to best represent All Americans. It's normal and natural to have Liberal and Conservative views...so far, only the Dems are willing to actively seek Bipartisan solutions...under Trump it's non-existent. Think back to the days of Reagan and Tip O'Neill...big disagreements, but a willingness to find common ground...even with a sense of humor on both sides. While I'm on that thought line...go on YouTube and watch Reagan's last speech as President...the one about Immigrants...wish the GOP still had that attitude.
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risk in the stock market, what a wonderful window opportunity for people near retirement like me and retirees of fixed income to reallocate our portfolio.
This is also good for value investors who’re majority anyway and again I am one of them. Because companies of value stocks usually are cash rich. They stand their grounds better during yield spikes.
Sorry Ty, we don’t care about mortgage because we don’t need new debts.
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1) We are stuck in an expensive unsanctioned war with zero results: no regime change, no agreement to thwart a nuclear threat, and a stranglehold on oil shipments thru the Strait impacting the world economy.
2) Affordability
3) No plan to curtail deficit
4) No control over AI bots now on the attack and out of their sandbox
5) No more watchdogs or oversight to guard against corruption, fraud, and self dealing
6) severely depleted reservoirs in west
7) unvaccinated children
8) depleted military armaments compromising our national security
9) China kicking our asses
10) Depleted university research and development
1) We are stuck in an expensive unsanctioned war with zero results: no regime change, no agreement to thwart a nuclear threat, and a stranglehold on oil shipments thru the Strait impacting the world economy.
-- How are we stuck? We can stop any time we want. Granted, agreements won't work with Iran, and they are willing to sacrifice their own people like Hamas was in Gaza. Trump is going to have to suck it up and escalate things.
2) Affordability
-- Not as bad as it was in the 1970's, and people had a better attitude back then about the United States. But, I admit, your efforts to make people feel downtrodden and helpless does seem to be paying off.
3) No plan to curtail deficit
-- This has been the case for decades. Nothing new here.
4) No control over AI bots now on the attack and out of their sandbox
-- New development. This is a non-partisan issue that all of humanity faces. Let me know if you have any solutions. Other than building ours first, I don't have a solution.
5) No more watchdogs or oversight to guard against corruption, fraud, and self dealing
-- Trump is going after fraud and corruption. But, I admit that the Democrats are doing their best to halt all efforts at doing so. Shameful behavior.
6) severely depleted reservoirs in west
-- Droughts come and go. We can't stop them. Dems created a lot of this problem by depleting what reservoirs they controlled for mislead environmental reasons.
7) unvaccinated children
-- Fauci admitted that the Covid shutdown kept millions of children from getting the measles vaccine, which is a much greater threat than covid was, so you make a good point there.
8) depleted military armaments compromising our national security
-- Assuming this is happening, it would be a major issue. We need more manufacturing in the US. I'm glad Trump is trying to move manufacturing back to the States. Note: This is not a stockpile issue, it is a replenishment issue. That is why we need things like tariffs, to help move manufacturing jobs back to the US.
9) China kicking our asses
-- Please elaborate.
10) Depleted university research and development
-- Feel free to elaborate. If we do address such a concern, we need to exclude China citizens from participating, to address your #9 concern.
Thank you Ned for putting my concerns to rest.
How about owning up to DJT's on-the-job performance, which has one heck of lot to do with this problem.
Unfortunately he has to wait for 4+ months.
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