"In two months, the United States has experienced the worst outbreak of measles in decades. The stock markets have suffered heavy losses. Prices of household items and food have risen.

In two months, the United States has become more of a pariah than a partner concerning human rights, global security, environmental protection, and goodwill."

#Musk #Trump #measles #economy #tariffs #StockMarket #PriceofEggs #stagflation #Trumpcession #HumanRights #environment #GlobalSecurity
/3

"The Republican-led Congress isn’t just watching the Trump administration gobble up its constitutional powers. It is enthusiastically turning them over to the White House."

~ Carl Hulse and Catie Edmondson

#Musk #Trump #Putin #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #Congress #Republicans
/15

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-republicans-congress-power.html

"Tesla’s share price has halved since December, with more than $800bn wiped off the company’s value thanks to sales in Europe nosediving. Musk’s social platform X has shed users fast in recent months, while the boss’s trade war seems to have cost his Starlink satellite business a $68m contract with the Canadian province of Ontario. This is not, to put it mildly, how oligarchy usually works."

~ Gaby Hinsliff

#Musk #Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #Tesla
/13

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/trump-musk-white-house-tesla-boycott

"The actor Jason Bateman said that driving a Tesla was tantamount to rocking a Trump sticker on your bumper. And with each passing week, more protesters gather outside Tesla showrooms across the US. Meanwhile, individual owners have discovered that the cost of driving a car that once symbolised wealth and status is being called a Nazi in supermarket car parks."

~ Emma Brockes

#Musk #Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #Tesla
/12

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/14/digested-week-tesla-shares-tumble-as-trump-crashes-the-markets

"It’s already going quite badly, for them and for us: The stock market is tanking, Musk is nearing rock bottom in opinion polls. GOP representatives are canceling town hall meetings rather than face the wrath of constituents over DOGE. Trump’s own cabinet officials are apparently just as fed up with Musk’s level of influence."

#Musk #Trump #Putin #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #Tesla
/11

"Where do Elon Musk’s business interests end and Donald Trump’s political interests begin? Trick question—they’re one and the same. ...

Trump reading off a literal list of Tesla retail prices is the purest distillation yet of a dynamic that won’t end well."

~ Brian Barrett

#Musk #Trump #Putin #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #Tesla
/10

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-congress-takeover/

"Musk and his backers, Putin and Xi, desire nothing less than a total reconfiguration of American power."

~ Dave Troy

#Musk #Trump #Putin #Xi #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
/9

https://america2.news/to-survive-this-we-must-break-the-fourth-wall/

"His top economic officials have embraced 'liquidationism,' the view that the economy needs to go through a period of suffering (“detox”) to compensate for previous excesses. Shades of Herbert Hoover! ...

Trump won the election because a number of people believed, wrongly, that he would do great things for the economy. It has taken him less than two months to squander all that undeserved trust."

#Musk #Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
/8

"Kai Ryssdal of the radio show Marketplace posted: 'I'm honestly running out of words I can use on the air to describe what's happening in and to this economy.' ...

It is an astonishing thing to watch a single man hamstring the United States economy. It is also astonishing to watch Republican senators try to convince the American people that a falling stock market and contracting economy is a good thing."

#Musk #Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
/6

"A market correction is a period of rapid change that drops the value of stocks by at least 10%.

Other major indexes have also fallen into correction as President Donald Trump’s tariffs and tariff threats, along with dramatic cuts to federal funding and federal employment, are hobbling the national economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 537 points, or 1.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 2%."

#Musk #Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
/5

"Stocks fell again today.

The S&P 500, which tracks the stock performance of 500 of the biggest companies that are listed on U.S. stock exchanges and is the world’s most widely followed stock market benchmark, dropped 77.78 points, or 1.39%, ending the day more than 10% off its record high of less than a month ago and entering into 'correction' territory."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Musk #Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
/4

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-13-2025 [heathercoxrichardson.substack.com]