Due to a combination of factors, the economy under Donald Trump is heading in the wrong direction which should raise alarms.That is the opinion of investment analyst and MSNBC contributor Steve Ratner who appeared on "Morning Joe" on Thursday morning with host Jonathan Lemire.With his wall of charts...
An article about a talk show appearance.
Tomorrow there’ll be a talk show appearance about the article.
This is why I have issues taking rawstory seriously.
A story about a story, but not examining the journalism, just … a story about a story.
A link supposedly to watch the story that is actually just a link to the page you’re already reading.
The included clip is to youtube, not MSNBC, and it’s not even to the official MSNBC youtube channel which absolutely does have this same piece posted.
Exactly, Rawstory is basically the left wing version of Fox News, telling you what you want to hear instead of actual news. My basic takeaway from his statements is that the GDp is still growing just not quite as fast as it was last year.
I’m not an economist so I don’t know but the the S&P is also nearing in on a record highs again and it seems like most of the turmoil in the markets that we saw at the beginning of April is gone for now. I thought the Iran bombing would spook the market but not really. I know the markets aren’t the economy but it’s a bellwether for how the oligarchs and corporations are feeling about it.
In the way that our entire economy is based on measuring itself, not growing as fast as last year is considered complete failure
The stock market =/= the health of the economy. Obviously the market being bad is not good, but the market being good does not mean things arent bad
I know, I said as much in my post just a sentence or two after the quote of mine that you used.