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"President Trump's net worth," the group estimated, "could roughly be #$15.9 billion, with about $11.6 billion in uncounted crypto assets." This would mean crypto accounts for 73% of his net worth.

Trump would be one of the foremost beneficiaries of this bill, which would exclude digital assets like his $TRUMP and $MELANIA "meme coins" from SEC regulation.

Not only does this benefit Trump, said Accountable.Us executive director Tony Carrk, but the legitimization and entrenchment of these unstable assets has the potential to make the whole economy less stable.

"Eerily reminiscent of the risky behavior that gave us the 2008 financial collapse, Donald Trump is ushering in a new era of casino-like speculation on Wall Street with highly volatile crypto trading in retirement accounts," Carrk said.

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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 107 points 1 year ago

Well this is the guy that bankrupted multiple casinos

Of course you should let him turn the US economy into one

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

Still blows my mind. How do you fuck up a casino that badly - multiple times!

Oh, right. Fraud. That's how.

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 year ago

It's funny that Republicans were trying everything under the Sun...including fabricating evidence...to show how Biden was profiting off of his position. And they never actually found anything.

But, here we are now...and it's nothing but crickets.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 year ago

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

It's even worse than that, because Trump's grip on the Federal Reserve is growing, and in May of next year he gets to appoint a new Fed Chairman. You can absolutely bet that Trump's appointee will be chosen by how quickly he does what Trump demands, so there is a high probability that we will see imprudent rate cuts that will give us the greatest financial bubble of all time, followed by the biggest financial collapse. The dollar will be destroyed in the process.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago

It's already collapsing, I don't think we'll have to wait that long.

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

What we've seen is financial erosion - slow and steady over time. What is coming will be unlike anything in our lifetimes. We'll see markets plummeting, bank runs and failures, hyperinflation >50% per year, and lot and lots of panic.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you take a close look at the trajectory from 2008 and the wage, asset, and income inequality trends from the stagflation days to today you'll find that imprudent rate cuts have been the name of the game for awhile now. Yeah Trump will overcharge it and cause the massive collapse and inflation faster but it's coming regardless. Powell ain't no Volker but even Volker couldn't fix the absolutely shit fundamentals the neolibs have fooled themselves into thinking a healthy economy is made of.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

and in May of next year he gets to appoint a new Fed Chairman.

watch, he's going to appoint some chud like vince mcmahon as the fed chair.

[-] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 41 points 1 year ago

His voters clamored for "running the US like a business," and Trump is delivering. Somehow his voters missed the part where every business he's ever touched was embezzled to death.

[-] thelivefive@startrek.website 30 points 1 year ago

God, I can't wait till someone "removed by moderator"s him.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago

You mean you want Trump *deleted by user* ?

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago
[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Ironically he made homelessness illegal right before Great Depression 2 better start building those concentration camps

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

this alone is reason enough to hope for a crypto crash.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 14 points 1 year ago

But it'd be a shame of some Chinese hacker stole all that crypto.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It's what he agreed to! Not your keys, not your coins.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Gyna, if you're listening...!

[-] pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Tbh a financial disaster might be the only thing to get republicans in Congress to impeach this guy. Major job losses and equity losses would make it super easy to save face and blame the guy in charge.

Not that I want that to happen, but it could be a silver lining if it did

[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

American standards sure are in the dirt. We made Carter sell his peanut farm, and now people defend this corrupt dotard.

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Strump and Smelania.

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