He folded pretty quick lmfao
Wonder how long it'll take for him to fold on China
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Amazing. He’s just mashing on the tariff keyboard.
Buy the dip scam is entering into phase 2.
How do we know this isn't market manipulation? When stock values are all over the place that's a good opportunity for people with money to make more money.
It's probably other stupid things as well, but it's definitely market manipulation.
that's exactly what it is actually
Uh, it is all market manipulation. Tarrifs, subsidies, grants, hell, even tax breaks on selected things, sectors, etc.. China. The EU and the USA, well most countries do it.
Anyway, the point here is that no one who knows how to play the market should have moved a dime through the fluctuations but many people get overly jumpy for no reason. This crap will pass but the media is fear mongering a bit too much.
Yes, those who wanted to play with risk, could have bought into the dip. You do not have to be a millionaire/billionate to know or do any of this. You just have to be in the market as to make some money. Like Google is not going out of business, if the stock went down then yeah why not buy into it?
I recall that when the Iraq war broke out, tons of soulless stockbrokers went nuts into American weapon manufacturers, specifically corps that made missile parts.
It is always the same and the same thing happens all the time. Same with the Ukrainian war. Guess who invested in weapon manufacturers again?
The most insidious part is that these ghouls depend on creating fear and uncertainty to spook people, largely with retirees who will be left to the mercy of Social Security if their investments were to be decimated. It was galling to see Trump bragging about Charles Schwab and some other insider making billions of dollars directly from his market manipulation.
Of course it is. His two primary characteristics are that he is a Traitor, and breath-takingingly Corrupt.
Because the man has no filter, he felt the need to say the quiet part out loud about his buddies profiting from this grift.
In terms of both economic and military strength it feels like Trump expected everyone to go “Oh no we need them, guess we’ll have to take a worse deal” but instead they were like “We need stability and can’t trust the US to keep its contracts for the next several years at least, so we’ll have to source elsewhere.”
I guess this is a tactic to isolate China and break up a possibly alliance of countries acting in concert to combat these tariffs? Well it's a trade war.
I can def believe he thinks that is what he is doing.
But by putting world tarrifs on hold. He is just giving Europe 90days to worry and discuse China. While giving China more reason to consider deals with Europe.
Add to that China has been building deals with most of the world for over 20 years.
China has less to lose then the big US corp owners that back trump and depend on China for manufacturing and parts etc.
Especially since the USA can't do anything to coordinate the response of their industry, having fired their people and only relying on the market to sort it out. While China could systematically and rapidly invest in any industries and goods from the USA that now face retaliation tariffs in China or EU.
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