Charlie Stross on Nostr: TLDR: Musk/Trump are badly damaging the US economy, GDP growth of -2.8% in the first ...
TLDR: Musk/Trump are badly damaging the US economy, GDP growth of -2.8% in the first quarter adds up to -11.5% if continued for a year, which is *huge*. (I lived through that in the UK in 1979-80, during Thatcher's first year. It was savage, and took a decade to get over—even thought she changed course after 18 months of monetarist disaster policies.)
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