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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…
Over/under # of MFO posters who will elect to "roll the (Fox Entertainment) tape": 0.5
BTW, I just can't stop blowing chunks on my screen over this thread, regardless of whatever the heck there is in that video. (I'll never know!)
Linking a Fox E…
Plenty of parallels to Black Monday 1987, as well as the trading days and news of the prior week, including (of all things!) bad news on the trade deficit. That crash of course was also the genesis of trading curbs put in place in 1988 which were j…
I'm just looking at facts, not politics, where most politicians on both sides have not done much
Man, it's like talking to a rock that talks back.
As I said...
...the buffoon killed a bipartisan bill that was proclaimed by both parties to be perh…
A wee bit of Econ 101 for the less informed.
Tariffs have always and will always have a direct effect on national and world economies. And, taking it slow here, national and world economies have a direct effect on world financial markets. (Links…
Hmmm...The world has long seen the video of the buffoon saying powerful men can grab women's genitals without repercussion.
Given that, I'm not sure the author's take goes quite far enough.
Maybe instead, BOLD inserted....
So to bring him down …
Powell speaks. Pretty much says, "I ain't your boy!"
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/powell-sees-tariffs-raising-inflation-and-says-fed-will-wait-before-further-rate-moves.html
WTF indeed! Jobs Reports include the week that includes the 12th of the prior month.
But there are 40%-50% of Americans who believe whatever he says, including a few notable posters on this forum.
Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia arguably holds the world record for the fastest time in which a new owner destroyed a thriving, major sports franchise. It is something under 24 hours, whenever it was that the trade for Durant was finalized.
The buff…
I fail to see how CEO's will be able to project or offer much of any guidance whatsoever while a 2-yr old toddler is pulling the strings on his diaper...
Agreed. And she said (paraphrasing)..."anything resembling clarity..."
And that is exactly t…
Some Index data
As of now, these are the levels the 4 major indexes are OFF their respective peaks
DOW -13.1% (Correction)
NASDAQ -21.6% (Bear)
S&P -15.7% (Correction)
RUT -26.5% (Bear)
Regarding dip-buying ...
Earnings season is coming up, so companies are going to be forced to address tariffs on their calls and they will probably project uncertainty. We will likely see selloffs even for earnings beats.
While today is looking …
The new strategy unde Trump is sell the rises
Agreed (sort of).
IF/when they occur, which ain't that often.
Since he took office 11 L---O---N---G weeks ago, the S&P has only been UP two weeks,
UP 1.5% his 1st week, and
UP 0.5% the W/E 03/…
The FEAR is now palpable. Many are saying a mild recession has now been priced in. Hard to say.
I expect/hope Powell today will NOT bow to the buffoon and the blood letting will continue through the close.
Where/when it stops, nobody knows!
E…
As detailed somewhere on this/other threads, we SOLD 1/2 of our stock allocation on Monday in anticipation of the tariff disaster. So we are sitting on a pile of dry powder.
We have re-deployed about half of the proceeds into a CD, three dedicated…
Not sure about that, but I do think the inner circle of criminals got the wink/nod to short it or park stuff in cash for a while.
MarketWatch did a good, detailed study in March of dip buy over time.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/thinking-o…
Why do I feel empathy for Bill Murray this AM?
Probably because Liberation Day is starting to act a lot like Groundhog Day, the movie that is.
Got up this AM and it looks like the same exact BS as yesterday!
Well, fortunately we held off puttin…
CNBC's Steve Liesman just showed examples of how SIGNIFIGANTLY WRONG the buffoon's other country's tariff %'s are. You gotta see it to believe it.
Next guest, Richard Fisher, former Dallas Fed Chair, attested to Steve's analysis, stating that he k…
Why did you start another tariff thread on an investment forum?
This belongs in the Off Topic one. It's obviously a political one.
Can you show me the high correlation between this article and our portfolios?
Can you see it today?
Or do still you…
Ugh, dummy me! I was really hoping for confirmation of my bowl and slips of papers idea, but this one may be even better as it IS far more in tune with today's methods and technologies!
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-live-updates-s…
Like I said above, I'm pretty sure the tariff %'s were written on little pieces of paper, and then the buffoon pulled them out individually when the respective countries names were called for the plaque.
So IMHO there WAS some thought put into it.…
Will this country recover, ever?
About half of the county and one of its two political parties are indefinitely trapped in a cult due to their own stoopidity, zest for power and personal prejudices.
We are pushing 70 and expect to be reasonably s…
All strictly my opinions here...YMMV.
For us, SELL time was Monday (which we did, 50% of our stock allocation), but no later than Wednesday COM.
We were pretty sure Thursday would bring bloodshed.
We feared/still fear Friday's UE (and future U…
Adm said they used a tried-and-true formula on the buffoon's tariffs.
CNBC's Steve Liesman said nobody that knows anything about tariffs/tariff history, including him, has ever heard of said formula.
Like I said above, I'm pretty sure the tariff …
