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⭐⭐ Breaking News ⭐⭐ The Senate has just passed a procedural bill to allow debt ceiling to be raised with 51 Senate votes one time only; this bill now heads to President Biden; after he signs it, both houses will vote again to actually raise the debt ceiling by a specific dollar amount. This compromise between Democrat Chuck Schumer and Republican Mitch McConnell behind closed doors has effectively ended the biggest threat I see to the market. Hopefully we've got smooth sailing from here on out ladies and gentlemen! #debtceiling #tcardizzle
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Just digging the whole deeper and deeper which is only going to make everything worse when it finally happens. It’s similar to AMC, by extending the play, they are digging themselves deeper and deeper.
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Jason G 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸@jmag77
@tcardizzle your updates on real world news that affects the market are always appreciated. 👌
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Emily@emilym6
Wish I could just keep increasing my debt ceiling at the stroke of a pen as well………. Must be nice 🙄
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This is a bad thing for our future.it should have always been smooth sailing.we have this thing called crooked government thats ruining it.
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Hopppppefulllyyy!
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Again, as many times as I've written about this people still don't understand the debt ceiling. Here's an analogy. You go to a store with your family and decide to buy a TV. You use your credit card. In a few months the bill starts coming due, a different family then decides they don't want to pay that bill. That's literally what the debt ceiling is. It's refusing to pay for spending that has alreSee more
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@tcardizzle well said. I was going to make my own post here explaining that raising the debt ceiling doesn't raise debt, but you've done it well enough. Thanks.
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Exactly! The debt ceiling isn’t about future debt, it’s about past debt! The budget is where you argue about future debt. You don’t get to argue about whether you pay the debt that BOTH parties run up!
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All is well under the dome.. 🧑‍🚀🚀
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Much bigger fear catalysts are inflation, which turned the market red today with cpi data expectations…and the Fed’s stance regarding a possibly faster taper and more aggressive interest rate hikes. Market cares much less//has become numb to these BS potential govt shutdowns and delays, Biden’s build back better plan is still a major consideration as the market expects it to get passed, but at theSee more
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Some people need to read more. Think of it as being able to pay our debt at all.
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By constantly raising our debt ceiling we continue to raise our debt. You guys act like omg we already spent it so we gotta increase our ceiling to pay for it. This is only happening cause we already over spent. Instead of controlling our spending we just keep maxing out our credit cards and because we can we increase our limits over and over cause we got someone else to pay our bills.. the middleSee more
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Agree @Brab1331
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@GodisGr8AH show me the data, please, bc I had one who reas about and believes what you say isn't true. I don't believe we made it out enough years for it to hurt the middle class drastically YET. It appears to me hat Trump made it so that if he had been re-elected, the tax breaks for the wealthy would hit at about the time he (would have) left office. Not in a political argument here, just wouldSee more
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David@Coffee_
Are you serious right now? This only prolongs the problem, We are finna be screwed without a real resolution, raising the ceiling just puts us in more debt and a harder crash is to come now because of it. The market is going to CRASH it's only how long do we have before they stop inflating the numbers. The Threat as you call it, isn't even close to being over. History repeats itself and we are makSee more
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@tcardizzle thanks for breaking it down. I don't pay attention to politics too much but now seems like the time since everything is getting more screwed up. Then again, it was always screwed up.
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They’ve been raising the ceiling my whole life and I’m in my 50’s. Idiots! Just keep kicking the can down the road!🤦🏻
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And don’t worry though if your middle class,,,, so none of us have to worry. Lol Stupid stupid stupid.
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This will tick off the Mango man
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@retiresoon has it never occurred to you in all that time that literally none of the bad stuff that's been said would happen has happened? Not one time? Before Covid after $31 trillion in deficit spending we were at historical low 1.2% inflation. But you didn't notice that? A global pandemic where supply chain failure and all time demand shift occurred at the same time as worker shortages is fixedSee more
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@GodisGreatAH see above ☝️
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@Coffee_ see above above ☝️
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The politicians, nobody here mate.😊 Being a business owner with many employees it’s just killed us. Something needs to be fixed and fixed quick. Sorry for the misunderstanding, I love all the folks here!!
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It's amazing to me watching people advocating for their own suffering. When the tax cuts for the rich that will add over $1.3 trillion to the deficit was passed I assume you were equally angry. Or when we spent over a decade fighting two pointless foreign wars in which we blew up then rebuilt their infrastructure while ours crumbled to the tune of over $2 trillion I assume you were angry? Right? BSee more
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If you're actually interested in the actual facts you can start here https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57633
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