• Rhaedas
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    “Soar”

    Looks back a month to compare

    Falling without style?

    • @[email protected]
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      899 days ago

      First thing I thought. Even after today, the S&P 500 is down 5% on the month and 10% since Trump took office

    • @[email protected]
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      149 days ago

      This is a dead cat bounce. Nothing fundamentally has changed until Trump is out of office. There is no one talking him down from his bad decision making.

      He will move onto the next grift or scandal so he can dominate the next news cycle and make the old one go away. Eventually he will come back to fuck with the economy again.

      Rinse & Repeat/Round and round we go until he hits something big he can’t make go away like Covid did in his first term. Then he will loose it.

      If you want my bet on what that is, it will be a major war.

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        28 days ago

        He will move onto the next grift or scandal so he can dominate the next news cycle and make the old one go away

        This is his life’s work. Way before the presidency.

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        War, cold war, or trade war? Maybe a mix, like trade war (since that seems to be sticking around) and a proxy war that the US is using to keep the war supply industry rolling (since he had broken all other industries).

        Don’t forget plenty of other pandemic potentials, especially since the US officially doesn’t recognize any problems anymore like climate or pollution or science.

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          18 days ago

          Cold War wouldn’t dominate the news cycle enough.

          Some say we may be in the opening stages of WW3 so I’m imagining full on war or domestic instability/insurrection.

          Of course an unchecked pandemic should always be on anyone’s bingo card moving forward as well.

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    949 days ago

    “Soar” is a strong word when you consider they were higher less than a week ago. Can’t wait for the next thing he says to drop the market before the weekend so his boys can get in on the next pump and dump. He literally tweeted “NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO BUY” right before he paused the tariffs.

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    I guess y’all think 90 days is enough time for China to back down and for all of your manufacturing and supply chain to spin up?

    He could change his mind on a fart tomorrow.

    Farce.

    Can’t wait to see the demands for DEI removal from sovereign nations to avoid tariffs. Or more energy blackmail.

    🖕

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      109 days ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if the US moron brigade demands from African nations that they shouldn’t hire black people anymore.

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        59 days ago

        Africa can do itself a favor by expelling all the American Christians that were there writing some of the laws for some of the countries.

  • @[email protected]
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    529 days ago

    The market reaction is dumb. 90 days bus very little for companies to adapt when years are needed.

    I think this but it’s just the people seeing his tweet immediately before he lifted the restrictions.

    Looks like we are still heading for recession and Treasury bills interest is still jumping up.

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      49 days ago

      I agree this is just market euphoria. We have a lot of systemic issues that have been exacerbated and/or entirely created by Trump.

      The core problem is Trump full stop. He is sitting in the White House with nothing but “Yes” men in his cabinet. It’s only a mater of time until he releases his next scheme on the market.

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          19 days ago

          No he won’t give tariffs up. This was his latest gift to make 10% tariffs on everything seem not so bad. I’m willing to bet 10% was always his goal and the crazy numbers he threw out were there to make 10% seem reasonable.

          The problem is after 4 months of attacking allies, siding with dictators, reneging on prior trade agreements he negotiated, and being called out for it globally. This latest economic grift wiped any trust the US had left.

          The US is uninvestable while he is in power. You can’t make major investments be it a billion dollar factory complex or some small business importing goods to build a product. You could be wiped out because of a mood swing or Orange Mussolini’s latest grift.

          Worse his tariffs put many US manufacturers at a disadvantage compared to foreign competitors. He’s just set the stage for a definite recession, long term slow economic growth or at worse a depression if the bond market fully breaks down.

          Even if he can get tax cuts passed they won’t do shit to put it all back together.

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      29 days ago

      I think this but it’s just the people seeing his tweet immediately before he lifted the restrictions.

      Market doesn’t know if the tariffs are even coming back, and are taking the chance to buy back low.

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        39 days ago

        He suspended it for 90 days and also previously threatened that there will be more, so we don’t even know if next week there won’t be new tariffs.

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          28 days ago

          It’s still possible that’s the point. Not the tariffs as a goal but as a weapon to hold over everyone’s head, to shake them down until they all bow before mango mussolini

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    499 days ago

    Have we forgotten that he has done this each month since he was Inaugurated?

    He crashes the the stock market with talk of tariffs. The wealthy buys options on the decline, and buy on this massive dip, and in a few days, HitlerPig announces that the countries on his list have responded to his tariff threats, so he is postponing them for a month or so.

    The stock market recovers a bit, and the wealthy will make fortune. In a month, he’ll do it all over again. This was thebthird cycle since Inauguration.

    It’s deliberate market manipulation.

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    389 days ago

    Speaking from experience in Canada, the 90 days is meaningless. Welcome to the dance of constant tariff threats every two weeks only to backpedal when the market crashes.

    He does not have the attention span to wait 9 days let alone 90. This man is a toddler with a flamethrower having a tantrum.

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      29 days ago

      This man is a toddler with a flamethrower having a tantrum.

      More like one flamethrower in each hand.

  • @[email protected]
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    319 days ago

    *Global stocks soar as Donald Trump pulls a dump & pump scam with all of his billionaire buddies.

  • @[email protected]
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    308 days ago

    I’m getting really tired of the media misrepresenting reality. Stocks are still down compared to a year ago.

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      48 days ago

      Still down compared to a month ago, but the post was a few days ago where there was one short upward trend for like a couple hours.

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    259 days ago

    For 90 days, if he can resist changing it again that long.

    I’m also pretty confused about how Canada and Mexico fit into this, because they said we’re included in the rollback to 10%, but we weren’t in the original “liberation day” tariffs in the first place.

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    229 days ago

    From the article:

    The commerce secretary added on X that he and Treasury secretary Scott Bessent “sat with the President while he wrote one of the most extraordinary Truth posts of his Presidency”

    Next time I’m feeling down, I’ll just remember that someone felt the need to post on Xitter that he helped Trump write down his best posts on some shit social.

    • @[email protected]
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      149 days ago

      The normalisation of that insane shit is something the mass media has to bear a large portion of the responsibility for.

  • Justin
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    35% Tarriffs on eu/Asia and 104% Tarriffs on China is still a recession. Other countries arent removing their Tarriffs

    The only positive thing this did was show that Trump is weak, so hopefully he’ll stay at these rates and maybe he’ll be out by the end of the year

  • @[email protected]
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    219 days ago

    90 days to save up your hard earned money so you can buy the dip again…and again…and again. This is what the old shit stain is doing.

  • Pyr
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    219 days ago

    Are investors idiots? He’s just going to change his mind again in three days

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      58 days ago

      Tbf, all these headlines miss that indexes like the S&P 500 are still far down from pre-tariff-mania. Investors are more or less updating their views for how screwed the markets are, rather than betting that everything is fine.

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      17 days ago

      Are investors idiots?

      A lot of investment is driven entirely by HFT algorithms and AIs now. The brokers oversee the broad strategy, but the trading is just a dozen different multi-billionaire hedge funds chasing one another’s tails. Market buy-ups and sell-offs are triggered by a handful of headlines and aggregator engines, snowballing up or down based on computers responding to other computers.

      And because the market is increasingly liquid - as more mega-investors like Buffet cash out in pursuit of future buying opportunities - you’ll see sudden sharp inversions caused by the sheer amount of buying power that’s being pent up and released between announcements.

      He’s just going to change his mind again in three days

      Very difficult to price that as a risk variable. And in the meantime, there’s a ton of money to be made speculating on which way his wind will blow next.