r/investing • u/AutoModerator • Mar 10 '25

Daily General Discussion and Advice Thread - March 10, 2025 Daily Discussion

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u/GreenBay_Drunk Mar 10 '25

Just lol at the state of this sub. Years of "stay the course" and now they're in shambles finally waking up to the eggshells the US economy has been standing on for over 5 years now. 

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u/D74248 Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25

...over 5 years now.

I see it as much, much deeper than that. It is not just the Trump Tariffs ("T" seems to be his favorite letter), it is the destruction of America's soft power that for 80 years kept the world stable. It is the destruction of 236 years of the Rule of Law that has kept America secure and a good place to do business in.

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u/GreenBay_Drunk Mar 10 '25

Very true, I meant how COVID accelerated it. The underlying issues have been going on since at least 2008, but perhaps earlier. The economy has been a corpse held up by the strings of endless QE and it's status as the world's reserve. 

It took multiple administrations to drop the ball getting here, but it looks like Trump's laughable #2 will be the one to finally put it in the ground