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Assuming the US can recover...

Idk, when do they buy? This shit has to go way more south before our dear great leader decides to undo the tariffs, right? And if he doesn't undo them, when would it go back up? We're still in a race to the bottom...

Be fair, it did take a long time to undo all that...
He's been back in office an astonishing two months. That's a lifetime!!

This is apparently a fake tweet. An archive of the actual tweet corresponding to that datetime is here.

Even the wealthy have to think about what is happening right now. To have their company's value go to shit overnight isn't winning him any fans.

A lot of people might decide to violently resist such an eventuality. Things can quickly go off the rails.

Remember that despite the rule of law no longer applying to the rich and powerful, the laws of physics continue to apply.

I mean, it’s only fuck if you’re in the stock market.

Another one from 2012:

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This is my thought exactly.

I watched Steven Colbert yesterday saying that this large of a fuck up is proof there is no deep state. While I get his point, I disagree. If there is someone in the shadows pulling strings this was the intended outcome.

It's pretty well known that in trading markets, there's almost always something that goes up when everything else drops like a rock. Even as such, moving money to be liquid right before a steep drop off, then buying up all the formerly high-value stocks at bargain basement pricing, and just waiting for the rebound, is a legit strategy. Having foreknowledge of such an action is considered insider trading however. Realistically, insider trading is difficult to prove unless the perpetrator is an idiot.

Whether you call it the deep state or the 1% or oligarchs, or simply "rich assholes", if you believe there is a group orchestrating things, then you beat believe this was the intended outcome.

No they are all over invested in the market. The techbros. The effective altruists. The boomers and anyone wealthy. They voted for Trump to pump their bags and dont care about anything else. Only the dirt poor maga aren’t baws deep.

Yep. The market is a lot like politics that way.

You might not take an interest in markets, but markets take an interest in YOU.

It's not even 100 days... 73 days since Jan 20th

And people still thinks he is playing some sort of 4D chess. My friend in Georgia mentioned that people around her says Trump is creating a dip, so that federal reserve will lower interest rate.

Yes, because president can fire tons fedral workers, can send secret police to abduct people, but cannot control the federal reserve, and have to play stagnation or bust.

Got my family out last year, I commute back and forth.

There is something really sick about watching this from overseas, like watching paramedics carry bodies out of a car crash.

But it was no fun when I was there.

Fucking morons shooting themselves in the balls to look tough.