Who says any of that has to be, jackass? When will you stop with your God Damned strawman arguments here? This is a trade war. Trump is sticking it to the damn Chinese for decades of screwing us to the wall on trade and you think our market is supposed to doing raving well at the same time too? Grow the hell up!
Yes, it is a trade war, and it is a war that was just as necessary as the Iraq war...NOT AT ALL.
We did not need a trade war, especially not one with the whole fucking world at the same time.
We are told by our politicians that China is screwing us...
yet while we are being screwed all these things took place...
1. the longest period of sustained job growth in the history of the country.
2. The 2nd longest period of economic expansion in the history of the country, which will become the longest in 3 months.
3. Sub 4% unemployment with more jobs than people to fill them.
4. Record setting financial markets...until the start of the trade war.
That does not seem like getting screwed, that seems like we are doing pretty damn well. If we are the ones getting screwed, why is our economy the one that is booming?
Not to mention that so far the only "success" we have seen from Trump is the new NAFTA, and the biggest change about it was the new name.