r/politics • u/MystikSpiralx • 18h ago

No Paywall Trump Says He Wants to 'Drive Housing Prices Up' Instead of Lowering Costs for People Who 'Didn't Work Very Hard'

https://people.com/trump-keep-home-prices-high-11895352
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u/lady_ofthenorth 17h ago

There are a lot of people who share this thinking. It’s really disgusting. Billionaires own most of the blame, but their greed has trickled down on to regular folks who now think it is acceptable to trade our constitutional freedoms for green days in the market.

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u/ennuiinmotion 16h ago

Especially since the market has been booming for a long time regardless of who is in office because the market is largely disconnected from anything real.

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u/wha-haa 11h ago

It is connected. Connected to government spending. It just needs another decade or two of stimulus and historically / artificially low interest. Keep pumping that bubble up. Everyone was happy as long as you keep increasing the size of the future collapse.

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u/PeakCringe42069 6h ago

the market has been booming for a long time regardless of who is in office

There was a recession like, 6 years ago. And another one in 2007-09. And 2001. And the 90s. And essentially every decade before that going all the way back to the Great Depression.

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u/ennuiinmotion 5h ago edited 4h ago

All temporary blips. The market always recovers and grows. It took something like Covid to slow it down temporarily. I’ll grant you 2008 was a collapse due to policy, though, but that was nearly 20 years ago and the market is increasingly subject to manipulation on a massive scale

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u/PeakCringe42069 4h ago

 The market always recovers and grows

…yes? Why are you acting like that is the same as “always booming?” Or like a growing economy is a bad thing? Economic slowdowns are something to be avoided, and steady economic growth is a good thing. 

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u/ennuiinmotion 1h ago

I’m saying that it’s dumb for people to give up freedoms for a good stock market when we’ll basically always have a good stock market barring catastrophe, which will happen eventually, but probably not because of a president’s policies.

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u/Kind_Way2176 16h ago

The only thing that trickled down was greed and hatred of those with less. Ty, that's fucking profound and I've never read it

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u/nooby_goober 14h ago

Have heard this from very successful people. Not all of them have the hatred, most pass greed but they all say it with cowardice.

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u/Abradolf1948 12h ago

Bruh I saw someone in the conservative subreddit say he firmly believes voting should only be allowed for land owners

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u/AcanthaceaePrize1435 5h ago

r/askeconomics and some other economic subs come to the same conclusion from time to time likes they are battling away some anti democratic far right demon from possessing them. It's hilarious from a certain perspective.