Showing posts with label Howard Lutnick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Howard Lutnick. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Trump's whopper of the week: The ten vessels Iran let through Hormuz on March 22-23 were a present to the United States lol

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  Trump says Iran let 10 oil ships through Strait of Hormuz as ‘present’ to U.S. ... “That was three days ago, and I didn’t think much about...
Monday, February 9, 2026

Why did Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick lie about his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein?

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 Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show ... Lutnick, the former chairman of the financial services firm Cantor Fi...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Despite his denials last year, Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was friendly with Jeffrey Epstein in 2012 even though he claimed to have shunned him since 2005

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 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/howard-lutnick-epstein-island.html Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Planned Trip to Epstein’s Island...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

The Trump administration's Howard Lutnick doubles down on the state capitalism of the CHIPS Act of Joe Biden

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  Lutnick says Intel has to give government equity in return for CHIPS Act funds   Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Tuesday that Inte...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Trump's $170 billion tax hike on the American consumer

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 The seasonally-adjusted annual rate of Trump's tariffs leaped from $96 billion in 1Q to $266 billion in 2Q. The federal government fart...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

1Q2025 real GDP revised down 0.3 to -0.5 in third and final estimate on an increase in imports front-loaded into 1Q to avoid Trump's tariffs

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 Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.5 percent in the first quarter of 2025 (January, February, and March), a...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

It's nearly noon and this chart of core personal consumption expenditures still isn't updated with the data due out today because the Department of Commerce which oversees the BEA is now run by the incompetent Howard Lutnick

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 CNBC usually runs a big story on core personal consumption expenditures before 9:00 AM every month when this report comes out, but not now ...
Friday, April 25, 2025

Ding dong Howard Lutnick says we're going to be training all those new factory workers how to spy lol

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And Elon Musk wanted this guy to be Treasury Secretary instead of Bessent, which is even funnier.    
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

I sense a lot of dissension in Mad King Ludwig's palace: Lutnik attacked over crazy tariffs, Lutnick counterattacks over crazy vaccine skepticism fallout from RFK Jr

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  ‘I don’t know anyone that isn’t pissed off at him’: Trump world turns on Lutnick RFK Jr. is a ‘conspiracy theo...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is the Trump administration sycophant who tells Trump whatever he wants to hear

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   Reported here : ... On the other side are Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and senior adviser Peter Navarro, the latter a long-time ta...
Friday, March 21, 2025

This greaseball billionaire Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick thinks missing a Social Security check, something that never happens, would be no big deal

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Howard is otherwise busy firing people and disbanding volunteer industry groups who help the government create important statistics and guid...