The ‘Significant Risk’ That Republicans Tank the Economy

How the GOP’s indecision in Congress could crash the markets

The Atlantic

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“The #GOP stands virtually no chance of stabilizing the nation’s finances, the Republican economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin told me. The only question, he said, is “how much worse will it be when they’re done?””

#economy #inflation #tradewar #tariffs #budgetresolution

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“It’s a significant risk,” Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told me. Enacting Trump’s agenda would probably be a “corrosive event” rather than an immediate disaster, he said, but “there is a reasonable probability that we go over the cliff.”

#inflation #economy #budgetresolution #gopbudget #tradewar #tariffs

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Three words only: Six-time bankrupt.

OK, one more word: Thief.