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Johonny

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3. Since the stock market is a leading indicator

Reply to applegrove (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:56 PM

Apr 4

I assume the layoffs, bankruptcies, and foreclosures are heading our way.

May small businesses will simply go away. Those Etsy stores and Chinese importers, they are gone.

Then their is my wife's friend with 25 cargo ships. I predict hard times coming their way. A lot of businesses are middle men without factories at all.

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Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or [View all] applegrove Apr 4 OP

What company can build a new factory Johonny Apr 4 #1

The small companies will have to sell out to the private equity and applegrove Apr 4 #2

Since the stock market is a leading indicator Johonny Apr 4 #3