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Cancel contact T mo time for a Trump Economy. Compare and contrast Here on the Midas Touch Network, I'm going to compare the U.S. economy that impacts each of us and how it's doing at the seven month mark under Donald Trump's leadership and how Donald Trump's family's doing and their personal economics. Let me not bury the lead. They're doing great. They've increased their net worth by 6.5 billion billion since he's been in office in January. I'll take time out of this hot take and let you check your bank accounts and your other your other look under your mattress and you tell me if you've increased your net worth by $6.5 billion. All the new economic numbers are coming out in September. They're all coming out to play. They're all negative against the Trump economy and his various policies. I'm Michael Popak putting on my Wall street hat here on the Midas Touch Network, let's talk about what's happening this week. Donald Trump may have fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, but he didn't fire the 2,000 people that worked there. And they're busy getting out the new data for the prior month for August. Let's start with the job numbers. Now, we don't have the job report, but we have been jolted by the Jolts report comes out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's known as the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey. What it basically means is, at least for right now, in the first time in four years, there's, there are less jobs available than people seeking them. There are, according to the survey, and it's done by survey, 7.18 million jobs are open, but there's others, 7.2 million people that are looking for jobs. It's the first time in four years. It's what we call the quiet cracking of the economy. These are the bellwether events that signal that things are going poorly. Now, the jobs numbers will come out later this week, but if the Jolts numbers are this bad, get ready for a very low, if not minimal increase in the amount of jobs for last month, maybe in the 60 or 70,000 range, which is basically anemic given the size of our economy and the size of our population. So we've got less jobs available than people seeking them, which contributes, of course, to unemployment. You can't get it. You can't make a job as an employee. You got to have a job available, available for you. So that's the first bad data. The next bad data is what tariffs are doing. Even though they've been overturned for now, they're still being collected. What tariffs are doing to the manufacturing sector in this economy. Right. There's two major components of our gross domestic product. There's goods and there's services. Goods, manufacturing, you got to make the goods. Services are things that aren't tangible but that you provide a service. Computer services, consulting services, lawyer services, accounting services, that kind of thing. That's a service. If it's, if it's something you're buying that's tangible, then that's the goods. The manufacturing sector has contracted for six months in a row. Manufacturing sector has contracted for six months in a row. The Purchasing managers index, which is a measure of what they're buying in order to manufacture. Right. Is down again at a declining index number, showing no growth. Actually, it's moving in the retrograde or backwards direction. And this is all part of Donald Trump's. This is all Donald Trump's fault of his policies. The tariffs are weighing down domestic manufacturing, the instability and the loss of skilled workers because we're not bringing in skilled workers from, from other countries anymore. I don't know if you've heard, we're anti immigrant in this country now under Donald Trump. So the people who are skilled laborers and professionals that would have came here on an H1B or other type of visa, they're not coming here anymore. In fact, many, many people are not coming here anymore. We have right now, in addition to the manufacturing sector dropping because of the inability to plan, even though the tariffs, as I've said, have been struck down by a court, they're still being collected and they're having that negative impact. Jobs down, manufacturing down. These are all. If you're wondering what a failed economic policy set of policies looks like, this is it. You're watching it. I mean, don't be distracted by all the things that Donald Trump does. Oh, I bombed a boat with 11 narco terrorists on it today. Oh, I, I'm, you know, I'm in favor of getting rid of vaccines for children. Forget all of that. Just look at the independent data and metrics that measure his economy and how it's not helping Americans. You know, sometimes when I'm listening to the news cycle spin out of control, I look over at my cat and I think, yep, the news and my cat have a lot in common. Both are unpredictable, loud at inconvenient times, and demand my attention when I least expect it. But here's the thing. I can't fix the chaos in the world, but I can make sure my cat is eating better food. That's where our next partner comes in. Smalls. This podcast is sponsored by Smalls, and if you're a listener of this show, you know that my cat cannot live without it. Smalls cat food is protein packed, made with preservative free ingredients you'd actually find in your fridge, and it's delivered right to your door. No wonder cats.com named Smalls their best overall cat food. I fed my cat Smalls just this morning the fresh, smooth fish flavor. And let me tell you, they've never gone back to their old food since switching fewer hair balls, shinier fur, and even a cleaner litter box. Honestly, Smalls is possibly my favorite sponsor ever because it just works. Still skeptical. Forbes ranks Smalls the best overall cat food. And buzzfeed said my cats went completely ballistic for this stuff. What are you waiting for? Give Your cat, the food they deserve for a limited time only because you're a legal AF listener, you get 60% off your first Smalls order plus free shipping by using my code legal AF, that's 60% off. When you head to smalls.com and use promo code legal AF. Again, that's promo code legal AF for 60% off your first order plus free shipping@smalls.com now let's throw something else in there. Tourism terrorism is down. Canadia has won the tourism battle, and they deserved it. Tourism is down in this country 9 to 10% over last year. That's an enormous. An enormous loss of tourism and tourism dollars, equaling the hundreds of billions of dollars of lost money spent here in America for food, for shopping, for travel, for excursions, for. For hotel rooms, you name it, and all the jobs that are connected to that. Out the door, Donald Trump brags about all the billions of dollars he's brought in, in tariffs. He never talks about the other side of the equation, all the lost jobs, lost money because of the loss in tourism. And you know who's gained, you know who's gained is America's loss. Canada, of course. Canada is basically America without being completely insane. I mean, I don't know how to put this at this point. And it's just so nuts how Donald Trump is driving our democracy into the ground. Just. And Canada is there to reap the benefits. Stable democracy. A lot of English speakers there, beautiful natural landscape. Very, very nice people. You know, safety and security. You know, nice food, great food. I don't know what else. You know, nice hotels. People are going to Canada instead of going to the United States, going to Mexico and to see a 10% drop. I mean, last year in 2024, it was a record bounty time for Europeans to come to America under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. And now a complete reversal of fortune. Speaking of fortunes, now, let's contrast the American economy that Donald Trump was hired to manage and steward and instead has completely driven it into the ground. And with the. With the personal economy for Donald Trump. Here we go. About two weeks ago, Donald Trump bragged in a social media post that he had increased his net worth by $1.5 billion. Make America Great again, he wrote at the end. He's. He was hired and elected to be the leader of the free world, to be the President of the United States, to do the people's business every day, every way, every hour. What we're watching is theft of honest service. What we're watching is inefficiency and malfeasance in office because he doesn't care about the American people. He's not doing anything. His economic policies are criminal. And yet he's made $1.5 billion since January. But that's not all. Add another $5 billion as of Monday, because remember that cryptocurrency company he owns with his sons, apparently cutting out all the daughters. He's a misogynist even in his own family. But you've got Baron Eric and Don Jr. Along with Donald Trump, along with Steve Witkoff, who's our, our, our foreign emissary, our envoy that he uses to negotiate with Putin doing terribly and his son and others. Okay? That group owns about 20% of World Liberty Financial. And World Liberty Financial just sold a token, a digital asset that's the equivalent of stock. It sort of tracks stock, shadow stock, but it's not regulated by the securities and Exchange Commission. And when you buy it, they tell you you should not buy. If you buy it, you should, you should plan on losing all of your money. So it's like a stock, it trades on a stock market. It was trading at somewhere between 20 cents and 40 cents. And the. And because Donald Trump and his family own 22 billion with a B tokens, his net worth and the family's net worth went up $5 billion on top of the $1.5 billion he already bragged about. So you got $6.5 billion increase in net worth for Trump and his family since January. I can see why he's not focused on the American economy. Who cares? Here's what the what the disclaimer is. When you buy a WLFI World Liberty Financial Investment Token, you should not acquire dollar sign WLFI as an investment on a speculative basis or otherwise for a financial purpose or with an expectation of resale for a profit or otherwise. Why would you buy it then? I mean, literally, it's just a vanity token just to put money in Donald Trump's pocket. And he's telling all of his poor suckers, although they're not reading it, they don't care that they should not be buying these things to make any money or for resale or for profit or otherwise. The things on a market, it's being traded on the stock market. How can he say it's not, it's not, shouldn't be purchased for resale. But of course it benefits Trump and his family. When you own 22 and a half billion billion tokens and you now have a locked in value of 5 billion, you're doing great. Shows why Donald Trump has no interest in improving the lot of average Americans or any Americans, doesn't care what happens at the supermarket or the gas pump around your kitchen table, how you care for your elderly family or your children. Care about that. Cares about making as any dictator, making as much money as possible before he heads for the exit. But he won't even head for the exit on it. With his own power and his own money, he'll fly away on a $400 million plane given to the United States by Qatar, which Donald Trump will conveniently take to the Trump Presidential Library on the way out the door. This is the a the running scandal of the Trump administration. It is something that should be indicted, it should be certainly impeached, and he certainly should be removed from office. But for that to happen, we got to work hard to get to the midterms vote. Get the Democrats back into power. They're right now the party out of power. Get them back into power. You know, tick, tick, tick, impeach, convict, remove, rinse, repeat. That's what we have to do. And then get and then have a proper platform and set up for the 2028 election and elect the Democrat to that position as well and start healing this nation and start fixing its economy. I'll continue to follow it all right here full time on the Midas Touch network and on Legal AF, the YouTube channel. Slide over to Legal AF the Substack and you'll pick up all of the filings, all the legal filings as well. So until my next report, I'm Michael Popak. Can't get your fill of Legal af. Me neither. That's why we formed the Legal AF substack. 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