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> It looked like we were getting a downturn of some sort this year no matter what the government did anyway just based off the debt term structure.

Who was predicting a downturn in 2025? What predictions of a downturn were being published in December 2024?

The fact of the matter is is that the numbers at the 2024 were looking great:

> Trump hammered the administration for creating an “economic catastrophe,” but some of his favorite gauges for assessing economic performance have been humming.

* https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/15/biden-economy-donal...

And the only predictions of a downturn in 2025 was if Trump made good on his threats of tariffs:

* https://chamber.ca/news/trumps-25-tariff-threat-new-analysis...

So you voted for tariffs by voting for Trump, and by voting for tariffs you voted for economic instability. There was nothing in the pre-Trump policies and economic thinking that would have caused an economic downturn.

Further, you voted for the gutting and privatization government functions:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025



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