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People really want Trump to be an economic disaster and sorry, it's just not playing out that way. There's no doubt his policies have reduced growth relative to an alternative baseline, but the US economy is in great shape for the near to medium term, even more so given everything he's thrown at it.

are there any main reasons why that is? I would have guess a silly tariff war and closing the straight of Hormuz would have dinged it more

Huh, my prevailing theory was that the government can‘t fix the economy but they can fuck it up (see Venezuela)

the US government is actually not an authoritarian state-run economy so in the short term we have fewer levers available for the government to fuck things up

They’re the extreme example but the US government has fucked up our economy before, specifically w tariffs