• refutablewife@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    But if we could find a way to crush the euro, maybe by making them pay for their own war in Ukraine and by making them buy weapons packages from us using only dollars, we can keep the dollar propped up long enough to redraw borders and strip enough copper and regulation out of the walls that foreign investment in the form of building new factories in the usa begins to look like an attractive investment, especially when paired with a populace primed by de-funded schools to be well suited for such jobs…

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      I am not a finance person but I always wondered if the market power would “slosh” back towards the “shallow” end of the money pool at some point and if the result would be the US becoming a new “3rd world” country.

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      I’m looking forward to seeing Indian tech companies outsourcing their tech work to formerly Elon-employed punks in the US, for pennies on the rupee. The punks are auditioning for it right now, and clearly their work will be shit but at least it’ll be cheap.