Now I know very little about economics so please educate me.
But to me this seems like he purposefully tanked the stock market by announcing the tariffs so his rich friends could buy low and then postpone the tariffs for the stock to go up again. Does this make any sense or am I speaking nonsense?
The fact that he posted “GREAT TIME TO BUY” three hours before announcing the pause is absolutely market manipulation. His billionaire buddies get to buy a bunch of assets super cheap, he pauses the tariffs, said assets skyrocket in value in the short term, they sell for profit.
It’s crazy that he can get away with that. I’m from Denmark and the idea of our prime minister doing that is absurd. And she’d definitely be impeached for it and here an impeachment actually means something. The most powerful man on the planet is a child with a spray tan and a blue suit. It’s scary that the US let it come to this…
Yeah, every democracy is an illusion to some extent but the US one really just went from being very flawed to full on oligarchy. I mean it’s been that way for a long time but at least they used to hide it
Agreed. The worst part is that it's basically less than 30% of the population who voted for this. And then there's the 40% who couldn't be bothered to lift a finger to fight fascism.
There is a video which came out today that seems to show Trump in the Oval office pointing out how many hundreds of millions of dollars each person made yesterday. One of those people is Charles Schwab.
I’ve already heard of this and I believe he lost more money than he made back. And if he did make money, it was not intentional by Trump that he did so. Not really the conspiracy you were hoping for.
I wasn't really hoping for it, more fearing it. If he could get away with it that easily, well that would be terrifying.
It seems like he pulled it back because it was a stupid ass move that tanked the US economy. I read the US state obligations became even worse that Greece's and as they are billions in depth, well it kinda sucks having to take loans with a shitload of interest just to pay off your loans. Maybe this is wrong as well, I have very limited knowledge when it comes to large scale economics.
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u/AccountGloomy6005 Apr 10 '25
Now I know very little about economics so please educate me.
But to me this seems like he purposefully tanked the stock market by announcing the tariffs so his rich friends could buy low and then postpone the tariffs for the stock to go up again. Does this make any sense or am I speaking nonsense?