Do you think Trump, Musk and their oligarch insider friends maybe, just maybe, opened short positions on a bunch of stock ahead of the new tariff announcement?
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.
Nothing needs to go up. Shorting stocks lets you make money off of them when they go down. If a person or group of people can cause a crash and know in advance what day it’s happening, they can borrow stocks and then buy the stock to repay the loan at a lower price and pocket the change.
He inherited a growing economy, a healthy stock market and low unemployment. He has undone all 3. Power move!
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!!
I keep saying that but a lot of people that just like to be contrarians (I guess?) keep saying that the economy was not really good at all.
Time for the rich to buy stocks on discount.
Normally Trump does what’s best for the ultra wealthy, but de-dollarization of the world economy appears to be good for nobody in the USA. I have no clue what they’re trying to do, I suspect he’s just lost it and there’s nobody left to tell him these tariffs hurt his croneys too.
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re already too far along to save the dollar’s position globally. Globally that’s probably a good thing, but for any of us in the US it’s decidely not.
I have no clue what they’re trying to do
They published it online. project 2025. They straight up told you what they’re going to do. Add in pooty, whose goals align a great deal, and that’s it. How do people still not get this, they told you what they’re doing.
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…
Knowing Trump’s irrationality, he just wants to erase all the market gains from when Biden was in office. That means he’ll keep at it until the DOW looses another 10,000 points or so.
Well I just bought some inverse SP500 x3 ETF so I’ll hold onto that until we reach the new great depression
It’s good for them when they can buy other people’s stock at fire sale prices, it’s less good for them when their own stock is reduced to fire sale prices.
That’s not how it works. Stock prices don’t fall below the level that rich people are willing to buy them at, specifically because rich people buy them at that level.
The trump regime was designed to TANK the US economy so that stocks, businesses, and industries can be bought by billionaires at rock bottom prices.
All is going according to plan.
Its Russia in the 90s all over again. Must be a coincidence that the Russian mafia-turned-regime they’re so chummy with, got its foot in the door and secured its power through an almost identical move.
Im wondering if America will have its equivalent of the 1999 Apartment bombings.
False flag attack orchestrated by the FSB of. The orders of Putin when Putin was still officially Boris yeltsins second in command.
It was used to justify breaking the truce with thr chechen separatists. And start a new war.
It is often cited as the main incident that allowed Putin to seize power in Russia. Yeltsin was dreadfully unpopular. Putin made himself look strong by playing the role of the patriot who was going to flatten the terrorists for what they did.
It was all a scam. Everything Putin has ever done has always been a scam
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings
Interesting read
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.
I think a lot of them are ideological psychos. Saw an interview with Forbes magazine founder, and he’s giddy about these tariffs because he thinks they’ll enable tax cuts. I don’t think he cares if his shares tank or whatever, as long as he doesn’t have money “taken away” from him to help the poors.
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.
No, that wasn’t the point.
There were 2 goals:
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Cut spending to 0 so they could cut taxes (cap gains to 0)
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Isolate the US from the rest of the world, this is what Putin cares about the absolute most. If we’re out of the way he sees Russia as unstoppable (which is stupid, they can’t beat any country with functioning tractors).
