No this is because of trump and a few people he picked to agree with him, mostly from the failed Heritage Foundation. They only got a fraction of their project 2025 goals finished by trump so now they want to punish us all with suicidal economic action because they have a cache of money and gold and can weather it. Trump could have been pro business, kill of regulatory state, reduce some of the size of military obligations and government entitlement programs. Instead he pushed the economy off a ledge.