U.S Treasury Secretary Bessent: "Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream"

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Re: U.S Treasury Secretary Bessent: "Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream"

« Reply #25 on: March 08, 2025, 01:15:53 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Smith on March 08, 2025, 01:13:15 PM

Unfortunately not wrong. Pretty obvious the dream is to get expensive goods [or at least expensive feeling] for peanuts and flaunt it, if all the social media is anything to go by.

No better place in the world to be a consumer, other than maybe Hong Kong.

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Mr. Smith
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Re: U.S Treasury Secretary Bessent: "Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream"

« Reply #26 on: March 08, 2025, 01:18:28 PM »

Quote from: Voice of low info America on March 08, 2025, 01:15:53 PM

Quote from: Mr. Smith on March 08, 2025, 01:13:15 PM

Unfortunately not wrong. Pretty obvious the dream is to get expensive goods [or at least expensive feeling] for peanuts and flaunt it, if all the social media is anything to go by.

No better place in the world to ~~be a consumer~~ get consumed, and like it, other than maybe Hong Kong.

More accurate.

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Re: U.S Treasury Secretary Bessent: "Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream"

« Reply #27 on: March 08, 2025, 01:43:38 PM »

Yeah, it's alienating the entire world while the Dow drops 700 points a day.

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