Trump is about to make your life WAY more expensive — still happy?

James Julian
Pure Dividends
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4 min readNov 22, 2024

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I find Donald Trump voters fascinating.

The major media narrative throughout the U.S. election campaign was that Americans were FED UP with the high cost of living, from travel to housing to groceries.

While that is almost certainly true — and I knew the Kamala Harris campaign was flubbing it big-time by focusing on macro topics like Jan. 6 instead of pocketbook issues — voting for Donald Trump was a fairly peculiar “solution”.

Here was a guy making economic promises left and right to render life more affordable for Americans, yet here we sit on the precipice of another potential cost-of-living crisis that could well be induced by …. Trump himself.

And he already revealed the roadmap that will take you there.

Yes, that’s right — the cost of everything in your life is about to go waaaaay up.

Don’t believe me?

Would you listen to the very people setting the prices you pay for everyday things like food, clothing, and shelter?

Just when you thought inflation was almost over, here come Trump’s tariffs.
Just when you thought inflation was almost over, here come Trump’s tariffs. (Licensed by the author under the Unsplash+ License)

Business leaders sound the alarm

This week, the Chief Financial Officer of Walmart — a favorite shopping destination of Regular Joes who voted for Trump — sounded the alarm about what the…

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James Julian
James Julian

Written by James Julian

James is a journalist, author, entrepreneur, and investor. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesJulianWealth

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