Daily Take: When Future Historians Write About the Fall of American Economic Power, Will Trump Be the Turning Point?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Under Trump, tax giveaways to the wealthy and soaring debt replaced economic stability and sacrificing the nation’s future for short-term political gain…
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| 1:00.1 | When future historians write about the fall of American economic power, will Trump be the |
| 1:05.3 | turning point? |
| 1:07.3 | America's economic system has never been fair or perfect, but for decades it rested on basic |
| 1:11.7 | guardrails that kept instability in check and allowed us to fight for progress and win. Those |
| 1:18.3 | guardrails are now being ripped away by policies that favor wealth and power over accountability |
| 1:23.6 | and long-term stability. For over 100 years, the United States has been the cornerstone of |
| 1:28.8 | international economic stability. The independence of our central bank, the Fed, has been a part of it, |
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