What can?
This country had a balanced budget during Clinton years.
The biggest reason for our deficit is cutting taxes for the highest income levels and trying to create a top down economic incentive model which didn’t work as you can clearly see from the stats @Redleg wrote.
This dumb approach will not work either and will actually add a lot more to the deficit by creating a recession.
Tariffs will tax everyone but they’ll cause a greater pain to the young people you mentioned because if they can’t afford houses now wait what happens with lumber from Canada and steel from wherever increases by %20-30.
The balanced budget during the Clinton years…. Ok let’s do this.
You mean when they changed the definition of unemployment?
Or when they started allowing un documented loans and allowing food stamps to be used as a source of income for documented loans?… after all the vast majority of the failed subprime loans had an origin date during Clinton.
I remember when Clinton was in office and I was working construction in highschool, all the contractors including my Democrat father were talking non stop about….
“ can’t complain about D’conomy, bitness is great!”
Meanwhile we’re working on $200k houses with people sitting on lawn chairs in their living room because they couldn’t afford furniture and the #1 question when handing the home owners the bill for the final exterior trim work….
“Do you take credit cards?”
2002 I’m a freshman in college and my personal finance professor starts off with a fire and brimstone speech about how people will be loosing their homes left and right when this mortgage thing goes south…. People in the business school are calling me an idiot for selling off my stock while it’s making 30% annual but this roller coaster is going to derail sooner rather than later.
Thank you professor Tomlin - you changed my life for the better in so many ways.
As for your lumber and steel prices…. Do you not remember just 4 years ago?
I remember one builder having to hit a client with a $130K change order because of lumber costs on a 5,000sqft house.
The only thing I’m finding perplexing is why Silver is going down while gold is up….. but again I’m not worried all that much because I’m not planning on selling off anytime soon and I’m still up an average of 35% on it.
Bottom line, I’ll never change your mind or opinion that you are certainly entitled to, but yes….
Hell yes I voted for this shit and it’s better that I expected!
The stock I did own I liquidated 3 weeks ago and I’m waiting to rebuy.
Here’s a guy that can explain it to you, he’s not as polished as Shapiro but he still makes millions per year sharing his views.
Hint - it isn't Boomers. 
