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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

On Tuesday morning's edition of CNBC's Squawk on the Street, Cramer told co-host Carl Quintanilla that if there's a recession, it will be because Trump manufactured it, and slammed Trump's handling of trade with ostensible allies. He went on to say Trump is "playing with fire," and accused him of "arson."

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A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: "I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane."

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-- Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) March 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM

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JIM CRAMER: Smoot-Hawley 60% increase in tariffs. There isn't anyone in any history book. I know the president reads history. There's anyone in any history book that doesn't say that wasn't considered". That was a considered reason why we had the Great Depression. There isn't a soul who's ever said that. You look. Go read Galbraith's book. It's really quick. It was a direct cause of the of the depression, not the recession.

CARL QUINTANILLA: So it -. It is playing with fire. You think?

JIM CRAMER: Absolutely. But is it arson?

CARL QUINTANILLA: Meaning that you can contain the blaze, is that what you're saying"

JIM CRAMER: No, meaning that you're doing it-. Maybe it's deliberate!

CARL QUINTANILLA: Right.

JIM CRAMER: And it doesn't make any sense that you don't want people to be laid off because of what you said. People are scared, Carl. You don't scare people. You don't scare-. It's just. It's a wrong call. It's all message. People are scared!

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-03-11 02:29 PM | Reply

Fat Donnie Failure is a ------- retarded idiot

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-11 07:24 PM | Reply

Of course he is.

You ain't seen nothing until they cut social security and medicare. That's the goal. It always has been. To hell with your 50 years of putting money into the system, those dollars now belong to the billionaires. They paid for them.

The recession will be brutal when only the upper upperr middle class retirees can afford food and housing and health care.

It's easy for them. They'll hardly notice anything...all their wealth is on paper.

Real middle class people will lose everything... their jobs...their savings...their homes.

It will force deflation and then he will take a victory lap saying "he lowered prices".

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-03-12 12:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Joe Biden's auto pen operator increased spending by 300 billion and refinanced the debt using short term bonds in the last days of the election to make the economy look good for Kamala. Leaving a financial bomb for his successor.

#4 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-03-12 06:14 PM | Reply

Leaving a financial bomb for his successor.

#4 | POSTED BY VISITOR

Then let's see if the Orange Genius is capable of getting out of its way.

At the moment he seems to be putting the bomb between his teeth and lighting the fuse.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-12 06:23 PM | Reply

I'm wondering how far Trump has to go before the dollar becomes worthless.

I bet Putin knows.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-12 08:18 PM | Reply

Biden drove the car over the cliff. We're midair and Trump is vainly trying to stop the decline, but there's nothing that can be done but ride it out.

#7 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-03-12 09:45 PM | Reply

The bloated orange turd is slaying the economy like it was Herman Cain.

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-12 09:47 PM | Reply

Example after example of waste and Democrats fighting all efforts to stop the waste.

#9 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-03-12 09:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The bankruptcy-prone orange pedo is going to have a recession named after him.

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-12 09:51 PM | Reply

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