Some Guy Dressed Up Like Steve Mnuchin Is Going To Send You Free Money ‘I Mean Now’

At the risk of ascribing too much in the way of empathy to an administration that's famous for its credibility deficit, Donald Trump and Steve Mnuchin sounded some semblance of convincing during Tuesday's coronavirus press briefing, during which the two men expressed what counts as "sympathy" for a nation in crisis. Trump had a few predictable (and mostly forgivable) gaffes, but Mnuchin was emphatic. Commenting on the possibility of injecting money directly into the US economy by simply handin

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9 thoughts on “Some Guy Dressed Up Like Steve Mnuchin Is Going To Send You Free Money ‘I Mean Now’

  1. I’ll believe it when I get the check. Let’s hope this isn’t just trying to BS the market up one more time before the crash recommences. Things are looking materially worse constantly.

  2. I am doubtful there is a good mechanism to distribute money in two weeks. If everybody got a check at the same time, it would cause chaos at bank branches.

  3. Why only a $1000? These half measures make no sense. We need to forgive all student debt, (a paltry 1.5 trillion), then have a debt jubilee in which all credit card debt is forgiven, (about 1/2 trillion.) These are small numbers considering every time we go into some BS foreign war it ends up costing us a trillion.

    Then hand each American $3000 dollars. Given the strength of the US dollar, its doubtful we’d even breech 90 on the DXY.

    So lets take on the debt now and we can prevent spending money on useless wars for at least another decade!