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Comment by jfengel

1 day ago

Musk posted: "The Trump tariffs will cause a recession in the second half of this year."

Uh, we are almost certainly already in a recession. The tariffs will almost certainly exacerbate it, but just the fear of them is reducing GDP right now.

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