• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Lots of stocks did. Everyone knew he would do things that benefit the large corpos (lower taxes, slash environmental regulation, remove labour rights). But then of course he got to claim the economy was doing good since American media thinks “stock market” = “the economy”

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      4 months ago

      Yeah the guy who was going to pass permanent corporate tax cuts and temporary individual tax cuts, funded by chaining individual tax brackets so taxes go up for individuals after 10 years, won. That’s great for corporate profits. And great for the 10% who own 90% of stocks.

      It’s horrible tax policy and detrimental to the majority of Americans but it absolutely should make stocks increase.