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Well, he only tallied one notable accomplishment in his 1st term, reducing taxes for the wealthy.
If he can get this shower head initiative booked in the 1st year of his 2nd term, maybe that frees up even more time for golf down the road?
Gonna have to throw a WEAK flag on his play!
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump-tariffs-live-updates.html
Excerpt:
‘BE COOL’: Three times Trump dug in on tariffs before he reversed course
The president for days has insisted that his tariffs w…
Charlie Gasparino says "What happened in the bond market overnight, the spike in yields on the 30-year and the 10-year bond, which showed that people were dumping our bonds," he noted. "And from what I understand, this is what forced the hand of thi…
The official adm position:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump-tariffs-live-updates.html
Excerpt:
Bessent says that Trump was always planning to pull back his sweeping tariff plans for dozens of countries just days after announcing it.
“This w…
A dear, long-time friend asked me to put up his Xmas tree a few years ago. He's a Trumper and he had Fox Entertainment on full blast for the 1/2 hour it took me to hurriedly put up his fake tree.
I ran home and hosed myself off. Literally. I f…
So it took all of one week for him to buckle under the pressure.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump-announces-90-day-tariff-pause-for-at-least-some-countries.html
Excerpt:
Trump’s Truth Social post credited his decision to pause the full eff…
The US looses a trade war to penguins.
Another milestone to add to the chronology of Donald JOHN Trump's many accomplishments as 'president.'
LMFAO! Thanks man! Made my day!
So the "econ team" (sic) got a leg up on the "tariff team" (sic) finally.
But just like the postponement from March to April, doesn't this just postpone the bulk of the pain and suffering to start again in July, with all due respect to that which h…
"ONLY THE WEAK WILL FAIL!"
There's always a bit of truth in what liars say!
The starts/stops all somehow remind me of those classic lines from Blazing Saddles:
"He keep's coming and going, and coming and going. But always too soon!"
This just in:
‘BE COOL! ... THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY’
And don't forget:
"ONLY THE WEAK WILL FAIL!"
OK. OK. Granted, he was a wee bit off about the whole disinfectant cure for COVID thingie, but I trust he's got us covered on this one, being t…
I previously posted:
Linking a Fox Entertainment video in the OP of a thread to start a discussion or prove a point says everything you need to know about a poster.
I stand corrected. Turns out that's not completely true.
We now know that this pa…
Words of wisdom from Josh Brown while the bounce was happening.
Scoring at home: Two dead cat bounces or failed relief rallies on two consecutive days as the country "takes it's medicine."
If only the buffoon understood (tariff basics and) that China has (paraphrasing AEI's Derek Scissors from 04/07/25) perfected locating and using the entry routes that make US tariffs on China in large part meaningless to them.
As they say, perception is reality.
That said, your perception of my original post is flawed. I explained it to you after you called me out on it, though nobody else but you seemed to need an explanation.
And in your post, you told me to "ease up…
TSLA is (or at least was) DOWN something like 20% since Lutnick's (illegal?) Get Rich Quick proclamation!
https://apnews.com/article/musk-trump-tesla-stock-lutnick-commerce-secretary-ethics-5a89c2f4a68a9470692630b5c56cffd6#:~:text=A week after Pres…
...For more than 40 years, US equity investors have benefited from buying on dips...
Great writer, but I am always skeptical of broad, over-generalized statements like that one:
MW recently did a detailed study of dip buying over time (that I thin…
Huh?
I asked a simple, objective question, intended to be a learning exercise for what appeared to be a new poster, trying to prompt him/her to move it elsewhere.
I also wanted to comment on it but why bother if it's in Off-Topic?
I'm fine wit…
Disclaimer: These are OPINIONS being expressed here so the is no right or wrong.
That said...
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On your first point, McCarthy was used as an analogy of the dominance that one Red Party elected official had over the part…
As I anticipated, New Issue, CP CDs paying over 4.00%, actually as of this AM, 3.75%, except for 3-6 months, are now gone for the time being at least.
We hold a 5-yr ladder now paying a smidge under 5% with the addition last week of a replacement …
I disagree. Everything has a shelf life.
First, of course, they won't have the opportunity to "vote for him again no matter what" as president unless well, unless the unthinkable.
Next, regardless if NO MATTER WHAT is in CAPS or not...His base is…
And for anybody who wants to better understand the fallacy of the materially incorrect tariff numbers in BOTH columns of the buffoon's tariff's plaque (that I've been posting about on various threads), try to locate CNBC's interview (at about 1:50 E…
Good god. In a bankruptcy, it's irrelevant what citizens, customers, creditors and whoever else "believe"!
Do you REALLY think a large % of his minions would still "believe" he's a financial whiz if the US went belly up?
Ugh. I'm done with thi…
And he's now threatening China with 50% additional tariffs if they don't drop the 34%.
Well, at least he has a lot of personal experience with bankruptcies.
It's been discussed on a bunch of different threads.
BOTH columns of data on the buffoon's tariffs plaque are materially wrong. (What a shock!)
CNBC's Liesman exposed the material errors in the other country's column last Friday and Fmr DAL Fed Ch…
Press Sec just said the 90-day pause is, well, FAKE NEWS!
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/trump-tariffs-live-updates-stock-market-crypto.html
Should we believe them?
Well the market does! NASDAQ was UP ~4%, now back DOWN ~2%.
You can't make thi…
So, the buffoon is considering a 90-day pause, eh? And of course his minions have a completely different take on all that.
Either way, they say there is always a bit of truth in what liars say.
For example, let's take his now infamous "ONLY THE W…
It is distressing to acknowledge that you're more than likely correct.
And beyond that is this sobering reality:
In a few weeks, months, probably no more than a year from now, we may very well look back on Jan-Apr 2025 as "the good old days" of th…
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/06/sp-500-circuit-breaker-on-tariff-worries-what-that-means.html
Excerpt:
There are three circuit breaker levels:
Level 1: The S&P 500 falls 7% intraday. If this occurs before 3:25 p.m. ET, trading is halted for 1…
In a sense yeah, but not quite.
On Black Monday the DOW dropped ~23% and the S&P dropped ~20%. Those drops caused circuit breakers to be enacted in 1988. We may lose a bit over the 7% today, but unlikely much more.
And many times overnig…
