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The key take-away is that uncertainty kills businesses ability to make plans for the future. Brexit did this for the UK, and Trump's tariff nonsense is doing *exactly* the same to the USA, only faster
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Nov 24, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop the immense sums involved in that tech bubble seem to be destroying the utility of a lot of the measures normally used to judge the health of the economy. When it bursts and is no longer papering over weakness in everything else the sudden change in those measures is going to be shocking.
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