The stock market is in free fall this morning, the global markets slumped, Senate Republicans joined Democrats to rebuke Trump's tariffs, and recession fears are rising fast. It's morning in America.
People wonder why DT didn’t act this way in his first term. I’d say that Project 2025 is the key difference—its architects saw Trump as a guy with an unmatched following in the U.S. There is one thing Donald Trump didn’t lie about; it’s obvious Trump knows zilch about Project 2025; he hasn’t even skimmed it. He just nods along to his advisors and signs whatever they slide across his desk. What do you all think?
Project 2025 wasn’t finished yet. These people including DT are not only a threat to Democracy or a National Security threat, but, they are a National, and Global threat in general. We really need to figure out how to get them out of our Government ASAP. I don’t think this country can wait until 2026 to take back the House and Senate. We have to really go after the Republicans in the House, and, Senate. There has to be a way where everyone in this country can get a hold of the GOP members to scream at them to do their jobs properly because they are literally killing us and the country. If they don’t care about us as people, they must care about the actual country? Hell, they are literally going to bankrupt the billionaires.
Heather Cox Richardson talked about Trump’s cognitive decline way before the election, comparing his behavior from his first administration to his second campaign. Last evening
Simon Rosenberg discussed his mental state in his Zoom meeting on Hopium. We need to be discussing this loud and clear. We need to shout it out to our elected officials, making them aware that WE see this and they need to too! They can impose the 25th Amendment, but it would require all of our elected officials to push the cabinet to enact this…. the only other option would be to impeach him, which there is plenty of reasons for this to happen as well.
Then we will be stuck with Vance, and he's just as dangerous, but nobody takes him seriously so it should be easier to get rid of him when the time comes.
The problem, it seems, is that trump has allowed all these maga Reps, all these maga Senators fueled by their hatred, their racism, bigotry, homophobia, transphobia, every ism and phobia known to man to come out 100 fold. They don't care if trump if mentally deranged. He's doing what they crave. Destroying the people they loathe. Did you see the video yesterday of Indiana Senator Jim Banks telling an HHS worker that was telling him he lost his job, "he probably deserved it". Vile, disgusting behavior from a sitting Senator.
We always said trump allowed maga, the people voting for him, to show their hatred towards others. Except it's ALL maga. Elected officials are in the group also.
A bit late now. He’s been a bipolar narcissistic sociopath with dementia for years now and everyone looked the other way. He bankrupted his companies and everyone looked the other way. People must stop looking the other way
This is what happens in a culture with little to no interest in current events/news.
I would buy a subscription of this for friends and loved ones but I know that they would not keep up with this. Ignorance combined with no skill in analytical thinking is the icing on the MAGA cake.
I am protesting on Saturday and call and write my senators and congressman regularly.
I am feeling hopeless. 😩
I’m surrounded with laziness and ignorance.
I haven’t given up on those people, but I know they are not watching the videos or reading. Maybe SOMEONE will see the importance of knowing what’s going on in our country - by starting to read and watch the Substack videos I send.
I know there will be demonstrations/protests/marches all around the country on Saturday. HE won't see any of it - HE will probably be on a golf course in Florida. - and HE doesn't give a hoot about any of us. But these sure will make the rest of us feel like we are doing something. That is the frustration of all of this - not having ANY control. My representatives seem to be trying (Maryland) they have been involved in protests, they have spoken out, we have all be writing and phoning, but they have no control, either. I am also feeling hopeless. Just feel like I need to hunker down for a very long ride.
When HE says "things will be SO good" - all I can think is "in 10, 15, 20 years??" Frankly, I may not have that much time (I will be 70 this year). I would love to leave this planet from a country that is stable and that I love. Most people are looking at their little children and thinking - it will be better when you are my age. My 26 year old is petrified and certain that the end is coming. She remembers a country where everyone was accepted. And, she is really worried about her parents (us).
This is all SO unfair. It could have been done SO differently.🤢🤢🤢
According to Forbes and other economically smart people, the economy was doing damned fine in the fall of 2024 to keep most of the country enough fed, housed, happy and working to enjoy life and be able to plan for the future as we know it. That is NOT the case for most of the country now and in the foreseeable future. Did NOT want to spend my elder years in fear of having to eat crackers and cat food.
I’ll be there Saturday too. The turnout’s gonna be huge. Sure, it won’t change Trump, MAGA, or the GOP—but it still matters. It empowers us. That energy builds, and I really believe when things start hitting closer to home for MAGA folks, some will finally wake up.
That’s when real change can happen.
I’m not hoping for a revolution, but I wouldn’t be surprised if one comes. I don’t think it’ll be a civil war, but something’s gotta give. I hate feeling that way—but showing up now? That’s how it starts.
There will be marches and protests around the world against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. That is what happens when you start a trade war against every country in the world, even uninhabited islands where only Penguins live.
Representative Sarah Jacobs introduced a bill today called Delete DOGE in attempt to cut DOGE’s funding. Call your representatives: U.S. House of Representatives: (202) 225-3121 I saw a video on Jolly Good Ginger’s Instagram account. Pass it on.
I completely agree. He's not smart enough for this. He only cares about his petty revenges. You can tell the difference when it's his idea vs when it's those around him, using him as a figurehead. 😔
He did the same thing in his first presidency, just in a much smaller scale. People should have been paying attention. He placed a tariff on soybeans I believe, China was biggest buyer, China went elsewhere for soybeans, farmers were hurt, tax payers bailed them out. It’s the same carelessness, stupidity and lack of awareness that he’s once again intentionally hurting all Americans, albeit on a much much larger scale. JFC
Stephen Miller, Rebekah Mercer, and Steve Bannon tried to accomplish all of this in his first term and largely failed. They took what they learned, pushed out Bannon, refined their approach, and created P2025 when they leaned into the Heritage Foundation as a hub for operations. To say Trump knows nothing about P2025 is patently false. It's still the same people driving everything who are the same people that shaped Trump in the first place. Mercer is on the board of heritage, Miller as advisor is seen as the unofficial boss of the DOJ and DHS, and Vought answers to Miller and Mercer. The only wild card I don't think anyone anticipated being the catalyst that they've become is the outsized influence of Musk, Thiel, and Yarvin.
Did any of those bozos take into account the reactions of the rest of the world?? Did they think they would just roll over and say--sure we will support this punitive madness?? I think they were working in an echo chamber full of ignorance of how real people think, feel and act when attacked by profit driven and ego filled jerks.
Oh absolutely. It's because they understand how to manipulate the discrete groups within the electorate necessary to manufacture consent. As those groups realize they've been had and drop their support, the core Trump team is hedging their bets on continuity achieved through coercion, threats of incarceration, and the suppression of dissident voices like our guy Aaron. They really just need to collapse the economy-which is the goal-in order to restructure our economic landscape to the preference of the VC and PE money that put both Trump and their guy, Vance in the Whitehouse this time around. In return for the gift to their financiers, the financiers will leverage their holdings to support the domestic aspirations of the P25 crew; theocracy operating under neocameralist rule, which is just a fancy way of saying a corporate owned and managed state. Some have taken to calling this Fascism. I find that conclusion accurate.
100% agree. Project 2025 is being implemented like a playbook, Heritage Foundation and its power hungry control money monger club has been planning this for years. In my opinion. They want to keep Trump as president as long as they can ( 3 rd term talk ) cause he is the perfect puppet as he continues to divide the country , tapping into the MAGA hate base.
He didn’t act this way the first time b/c he had people telling him he can’t do things—as he had people in the white house that were check and balancing him — which is why this time around, project 2025 was being worked on to avoid these “checks and balances” if he were to return to the white house again. So now he only has and needs loyalists who won’t tell him “no” like they did before. Besides, he already admitted his election was rigged by Elon Musk, so apparently it was a shoe in for him to get reelected.
All those tariffs, all the talk of cutting waste in government for the good of the people (who support Trump)...all the people who have no income now and are loosing retirement funds while the markets crash. Just as any addict must reach rock bottom before realizing they need to turn around their habits. So goes those supporting Trump. It's just how far down that fall goes ... It's like watching a very slow death spiral.
yeah, but most of us who voted blue are caught in the bottom of the barrel also. Having done my taxes I realized that I donated one tenth of my meager income to Act Blue trying to invest in the future of the country, which did not help. It is all so maddening
Can someone explain this in an economics for dummies kinda way? Are they plummeting because people are getting rid of that stock? Thank you in advance.
It's usually means large Institutional Traders are selling their positions at a high rate and it's lowering the prices overall. They usually then move the money to cash, fixed income like bonds, or derivatives to hedge their bets. Once the market starts moving like this and everyone starts freaking out, then individual investors starts doing the same. It's kind of like a bank run but with the stock market. If the stock market was truly free falling, there is something called Stock Market Halts where once the drop hits a threshold, the stock market stops trading. This is to help slow down the hysteria that usually happens during crises like this. Last time I saw this personally was back in 08.
I remember 2008 very well. My own investments dropped 30% and I was a lucky one. Others were not so well invested and saw even greater drops. I remember it took about 3 years for the value to come back (maybe longer,) Keep an eye out for the Stock Market Halts -- if the market stops trading, we are in deep weeds.
I just asked below if this is similar to what happened in 2008? I was 27 at the time and didn’t care about politics at that time. All I knew is my favorite artists were releasing
thanks for helping us to understand. for the majority of people who have never had enough money to invest in the stock market it is all maddening and frustrating and mysterious. Of course our insurance companies, banks, pensions, etc are all affected by this as well so it touches everyone, but most people can't move investments around hourly to mitigate loss and position them selves to benefit when the market rises again. We just suffer the losses.
Just to make sure I used Copilot (AI). Generally, these are the reasons cited for negative market reactions from tariffs:
1. Higher Costs for Businesses: Companies that rely on imported goods will have to pay more because of the tariffs. This increases their costs, which can lead to lower profits.
2. Higher Prices for Consumers: If businesses pass on the higher costs to consumers, the prices of goods and services can go up. This can reduce consumer spending, which is bad for the economy.
3. Trade Tensions: Tariff announcements can lead to trade disputes between countries. If countries retaliate by imposing their own tariffs, it can disrupt international trade and hurt global economic growth.
4. Uncertainty: Markets don’t like uncertainty. Tariff announcements can create uncertainty about future trade policies and economic conditions, making investors nervous. Nervous investors might sell their stocks, causing market prices to drop.
However, I asked it to identify which of those would primarily result in negative market reactions within 24 hours of tariffs being announced and it was #3 and 4 from above with this:
Uncertainty: Investors dislike uncertainty because it makes it harder to predict future economic conditions. Tariff announcements can create significant uncertainty about trade policies, potential retaliations from other countries, and overall economic stability12. This uncertainty often leads to a quick sell-off in the markets as investors seek safer assets.
Trade Tensions: The announcement of tariffs can escalate trade tensions between countries. If investors anticipate retaliatory tariffs or a trade war, they may quickly sell stocks to avoid potential losses23. This immediate reaction can cause market prices to drop sharply.
Same for me…occasionally it’s fun to get info from people too. I interact with people but the systems I use are ran by AI. I think people who are knowledgeable in topics I know nothing about are interesting to me.
The simplest is that big business doesn't support trump and his policies. Therefore extreme financial things happen. People dump stocks to avoid the bottom at the recession. People are being fired and it's just beginning.
For the average person, this will only impact us immediately if we have 401ks or 403bs or IRAs with our money invested in the stock market. A lot of us will lose value in our accounts. It's hard to know what could happen long-term because we don't know if this is going to stop with Trump doing an about face later today or if this is going to continue on.
At what point do these Corporations start putting pressure on the Republicans to push back against Trump and threaten to stop funding Republican PACs instead of kissing ass to become exempt from tariffs? This HAS to be screwing their bottom line and I cannot wrap my head around how this is beneficial for them unless they are just looking to buy up the pieces after everything crashes to become oligarchs themselves.
The world's supply chains got more and more globalized over the years which was good for the industries and also helped to create beneficial and non-conflictual relationships among nations, all those secondary benefits that the MAGAs can't envision (like not understanding the benefits of USAID) Now we are going back to dog eat dog. It would take years to recreate on our soil the kind of feeder industries to support our manufacturing, and guess what--we are sending back "home" most of the people who would fill in as the workers in said companies. If thousands of experienced professionals are going to be forced to make minimum wages because jobs are not available in their fields, that does not make for a solid, happy and stable country. Prices going up--salaries and SS and Medicaid going down. We are headed for hell. (can you tell I haven't had my coffee yet this morning? Usually not so bleak ...)
damned good question. this can't be good for their bottom lines either. they don't want to be set upon by T's goons but they also might want to have a future economically. so many just fork over millions to placate the beast.
My 401(k) has taken a massive hit since the first tariff announcement. I mentioned I couldn't wait to see what this announcement did to it. My stepfather goes "Well it may drop but it will eventually go back up and much higher!" Okkkaaayyy suuuuurrrreee...😭
Does anyone else think he wants a recession so the billionaires can literally own everything. I mean when main street goes broke they can step in and own it all.
People wonder why DT didn’t act this way in his first term. I’d say that Project 2025 is the key difference—its architects saw Trump as a guy with an unmatched following in the U.S. There is one thing Donald Trump didn’t lie about; it’s obvious Trump knows zilch about Project 2025; he hasn’t even skimmed it. He just nods along to his advisors and signs whatever they slide across his desk. What do you all think?
Project 2025 wasn’t finished yet. These people including DT are not only a threat to Democracy or a National Security threat, but, they are a National, and Global threat in general. We really need to figure out how to get them out of our Government ASAP. I don’t think this country can wait until 2026 to take back the House and Senate. We have to really go after the Republicans in the House, and, Senate. There has to be a way where everyone in this country can get a hold of the GOP members to scream at them to do their jobs properly because they are literally killing us and the country. If they don’t care about us as people, they must care about the actual country? Hell, they are literally going to bankrupt the billionaires.
Heather Cox Richardson talked about Trump’s cognitive decline way before the election, comparing his behavior from his first administration to his second campaign. Last evening
Simon Rosenberg discussed his mental state in his Zoom meeting on Hopium. We need to be discussing this loud and clear. We need to shout it out to our elected officials, making them aware that WE see this and they need to too! They can impose the 25th Amendment, but it would require all of our elected officials to push the cabinet to enact this…. the only other option would be to impeach him, which there is plenty of reasons for this to happen as well.
Then we will be stuck with Vance, and he's just as dangerous, but nobody takes him seriously so it should be easier to get rid of him when the time comes.
LOL! Wanna bet that perverted POS, drunk gets done away with!
The problem, it seems, is that trump has allowed all these maga Reps, all these maga Senators fueled by their hatred, their racism, bigotry, homophobia, transphobia, every ism and phobia known to man to come out 100 fold. They don't care if trump if mentally deranged. He's doing what they crave. Destroying the people they loathe. Did you see the video yesterday of Indiana Senator Jim Banks telling an HHS worker that was telling him he lost his job, "he probably deserved it". Vile, disgusting behavior from a sitting Senator.
We always said trump allowed maga, the people voting for him, to show their hatred towards others. Except it's ALL maga. Elected officials are in the group also.
A bit late now. He’s been a bipolar narcissistic sociopath with dementia for years now and everyone looked the other way. He bankrupted his companies and everyone looked the other way. People must stop looking the other way
I absolutely agree.
This is what happens in a culture with little to no interest in current events/news.
I would buy a subscription of this for friends and loved ones but I know that they would not keep up with this. Ignorance combined with no skill in analytical thinking is the icing on the MAGA cake.
I am protesting on Saturday and call and write my senators and congressman regularly.
I am feeling hopeless. 😩
I’m surrounded with laziness and ignorance.
I haven’t given up on those people, but I know they are not watching the videos or reading. Maybe SOMEONE will see the importance of knowing what’s going on in our country - by starting to read and watch the Substack videos I send.
🤞🤞✌️✌️
I know there will be demonstrations/protests/marches all around the country on Saturday. HE won't see any of it - HE will probably be on a golf course in Florida. - and HE doesn't give a hoot about any of us. But these sure will make the rest of us feel like we are doing something. That is the frustration of all of this - not having ANY control. My representatives seem to be trying (Maryland) they have been involved in protests, they have spoken out, we have all be writing and phoning, but they have no control, either. I am also feeling hopeless. Just feel like I need to hunker down for a very long ride.
When HE says "things will be SO good" - all I can think is "in 10, 15, 20 years??" Frankly, I may not have that much time (I will be 70 this year). I would love to leave this planet from a country that is stable and that I love. Most people are looking at their little children and thinking - it will be better when you are my age. My 26 year old is petrified and certain that the end is coming. She remembers a country where everyone was accepted. And, she is really worried about her parents (us).
This is all SO unfair. It could have been done SO differently.🤢🤢🤢
According to Forbes and other economically smart people, the economy was doing damned fine in the fall of 2024 to keep most of the country enough fed, housed, happy and working to enjoy life and be able to plan for the future as we know it. That is NOT the case for most of the country now and in the foreseeable future. Did NOT want to spend my elder years in fear of having to eat crackers and cat food.
I’ll be there Saturday too. The turnout’s gonna be huge. Sure, it won’t change Trump, MAGA, or the GOP—but it still matters. It empowers us. That energy builds, and I really believe when things start hitting closer to home for MAGA folks, some will finally wake up.
That’s when real change can happen.
I’m not hoping for a revolution, but I wouldn’t be surprised if one comes. I don’t think it’ll be a civil war, but something’s gotta give. I hate feeling that way—but showing up now? That’s how it starts.
There will be marches and protests around the world against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. That is what happens when you start a trade war against every country in the world, even uninhabited islands where only Penguins live.
Me too!
Why do you think DJT has aides? that is part of their job. dumpy is more concerned about his "ratings" than the country or her people.
You just echoed my sentiments exactly! I will also be protesting in Denver on Saturday. I hope there is a MASSIVE turn out around the country.
Representative Sarah Jacobs introduced a bill today called Delete DOGE in attempt to cut DOGE’s funding. Call your representatives: U.S. House of Representatives: (202) 225-3121 I saw a video on Jolly Good Ginger’s Instagram account. Pass it on.
This is what happens when a culture is uneducated.
I completely agree. He's not smart enough for this. He only cares about his petty revenges. You can tell the difference when it's his idea vs when it's those around him, using him as a figurehead. 😔
I think he's also holding a temper tantrum and holding the American people responsible for not winning last time. He's a giant toddler using revenge
He did the same thing in his first presidency, just in a much smaller scale. People should have been paying attention. He placed a tariff on soybeans I believe, China was biggest buyer, China went elsewhere for soybeans, farmers were hurt, tax payers bailed them out. It’s the same carelessness, stupidity and lack of awareness that he’s once again intentionally hurting all Americans, albeit on a much much larger scale. JFC
Stephen Miller, Rebekah Mercer, and Steve Bannon tried to accomplish all of this in his first term and largely failed. They took what they learned, pushed out Bannon, refined their approach, and created P2025 when they leaned into the Heritage Foundation as a hub for operations. To say Trump knows nothing about P2025 is patently false. It's still the same people driving everything who are the same people that shaped Trump in the first place. Mercer is on the board of heritage, Miller as advisor is seen as the unofficial boss of the DOJ and DHS, and Vought answers to Miller and Mercer. The only wild card I don't think anyone anticipated being the catalyst that they've become is the outsized influence of Musk, Thiel, and Yarvin.
Did any of those bozos take into account the reactions of the rest of the world?? Did they think they would just roll over and say--sure we will support this punitive madness?? I think they were working in an echo chamber full of ignorance of how real people think, feel and act when attacked by profit driven and ego filled jerks.
Oh absolutely. It's because they understand how to manipulate the discrete groups within the electorate necessary to manufacture consent. As those groups realize they've been had and drop their support, the core Trump team is hedging their bets on continuity achieved through coercion, threats of incarceration, and the suppression of dissident voices like our guy Aaron. They really just need to collapse the economy-which is the goal-in order to restructure our economic landscape to the preference of the VC and PE money that put both Trump and their guy, Vance in the Whitehouse this time around. In return for the gift to their financiers, the financiers will leverage their holdings to support the domestic aspirations of the P25 crew; theocracy operating under neocameralist rule, which is just a fancy way of saying a corporate owned and managed state. Some have taken to calling this Fascism. I find that conclusion accurate.
I think the people at project 2025 are in full control of the president. It is sad. We will suffer with this mess until he is gone.
LOL! they saw Trump as the dumbest human on the planet, greedy and power hungry.
100% agree. Project 2025 is being implemented like a playbook, Heritage Foundation and its power hungry control money monger club has been planning this for years. In my opinion. They want to keep Trump as president as long as they can ( 3 rd term talk ) cause he is the perfect puppet as he continues to divide the country , tapping into the MAGA hate base.
Any idea when the HF started writing project 2025?
He had at least a few sane people around him his first term. The GOP lawmakers weren't as much off their rockers back then.
DT can't read for himself...
He didn’t act this way the first time b/c he had people telling him he can’t do things—as he had people in the white house that were check and balancing him — which is why this time around, project 2025 was being worked on to avoid these “checks and balances” if he were to return to the white house again. So now he only has and needs loyalists who won’t tell him “no” like they did before. Besides, he already admitted his election was rigged by Elon Musk, so apparently it was a shoe in for him to get reelected.
We are in the midst of a coup. The damage he’s doing will soon be irreparable.
It already is, I fear... 😢
I agree - today, we have lost any position we held with the rest of the world. Such a DUMB move.
I hope not.
It’s not a coup! It’s an oligarchy! Trump is a dictator! A coup would be someone taking him and his entire cabinet out of the WH
He’s overthrowing the government.
Do you mean he is dismantling the branches of government ? If so, yes! But that is still not a coup! It’s an oligarchy!
We know this. Where is the Democratic THINK TANK with the plan on how to fix it all? We are watching the blood bath but no plans to fix it.
We need his “patriots” to figure out they’ve been had.
You forgot to mention the very important no taxes on Russia, as well as those two islands with the pen wings
wait yeah why aren’t we putting tariffs on russia?!?
All this for putin and heritage foundation..
1200 points self inflicted M15 assault on the US and world economies
what a dumb arrogant shmuck
no wonder he’s a multiple bankrupt AND divorcee . the very definition of ‘loser’
forget the MAGA cult
but you who voted for him thinking he’d be good for yiur bottom line… have YOU had enough?
if so -let your MAGA senators and representatives know loud and clear
All those tariffs, all the talk of cutting waste in government for the good of the people (who support Trump)...all the people who have no income now and are loosing retirement funds while the markets crash. Just as any addict must reach rock bottom before realizing they need to turn around their habits. So goes those supporting Trump. It's just how far down that fall goes ... It's like watching a very slow death spiral.
yeah, but most of us who voted blue are caught in the bottom of the barrel also. Having done my taxes I realized that I donated one tenth of my meager income to Act Blue trying to invest in the future of the country, which did not help. It is all so maddening
Can someone explain this in an economics for dummies kinda way? Are they plummeting because people are getting rid of that stock? Thank you in advance.
It's usually means large Institutional Traders are selling their positions at a high rate and it's lowering the prices overall. They usually then move the money to cash, fixed income like bonds, or derivatives to hedge their bets. Once the market starts moving like this and everyone starts freaking out, then individual investors starts doing the same. It's kind of like a bank run but with the stock market. If the stock market was truly free falling, there is something called Stock Market Halts where once the drop hits a threshold, the stock market stops trading. This is to help slow down the hysteria that usually happens during crises like this. Last time I saw this personally was back in 08.
I remember 2008 very well. My own investments dropped 30% and I was a lucky one. Others were not so well invested and saw even greater drops. I remember it took about 3 years for the value to come back (maybe longer,) Keep an eye out for the Stock Market Halts -- if the market stops trading, we are in deep weeds.
I just asked below if this is similar to what happened in 2008? I was 27 at the time and didn’t care about politics at that time. All I knew is my favorite artists were releasing
The best music…that I now know was a distraction.
thanks for helping us to understand. for the majority of people who have never had enough money to invest in the stock market it is all maddening and frustrating and mysterious. Of course our insurance companies, banks, pensions, etc are all affected by this as well so it touches everyone, but most people can't move investments around hourly to mitigate loss and position them selves to benefit when the market rises again. We just suffer the losses.
Just to make sure I used Copilot (AI). Generally, these are the reasons cited for negative market reactions from tariffs:
1. Higher Costs for Businesses: Companies that rely on imported goods will have to pay more because of the tariffs. This increases their costs, which can lead to lower profits.
2. Higher Prices for Consumers: If businesses pass on the higher costs to consumers, the prices of goods and services can go up. This can reduce consumer spending, which is bad for the economy.
3. Trade Tensions: Tariff announcements can lead to trade disputes between countries. If countries retaliate by imposing their own tariffs, it can disrupt international trade and hurt global economic growth.
4. Uncertainty: Markets don’t like uncertainty. Tariff announcements can create uncertainty about future trade policies and economic conditions, making investors nervous. Nervous investors might sell their stocks, causing market prices to drop.
However, I asked it to identify which of those would primarily result in negative market reactions within 24 hours of tariffs being announced and it was #3 and 4 from above with this:
Uncertainty: Investors dislike uncertainty because it makes it harder to predict future economic conditions. Tariff announcements can create significant uncertainty about trade policies, potential retaliations from other countries, and overall economic stability12. This uncertainty often leads to a quick sell-off in the markets as investors seek safer assets.
Trade Tensions: The announcement of tariffs can escalate trade tensions between countries. If investors anticipate retaliatory tariffs or a trade war, they may quickly sell stocks to avoid potential losses23. This immediate reaction can cause market prices to drop sharply.
Oooh okay! I always forget I can ask AI. I guess I prefer humans still. Thank you.
I have a goal of using AI more especially for work so it's becoming more embedded in my routine.
Same for me…occasionally it’s fun to get info from people too. I interact with people but the systems I use are ran by AI. I think people who are knowledgeable in topics I know nothing about are interesting to me.
The simplest is that big business doesn't support trump and his policies. Therefore extreme financial things happen. People dump stocks to avoid the bottom at the recession. People are being fired and it's just beginning.
I also have no clue how the stock market works or what the means for the average person.
For the average person, this will only impact us immediately if we have 401ks or 403bs or IRAs with our money invested in the stock market. A lot of us will lose value in our accounts. It's hard to know what could happen long-term because we don't know if this is going to stop with Trump doing an about face later today or if this is going to continue on.
Me either. I took the most basic class in college so all of this confuses me.
Is this what happened in 2008? I was 27 and didn’t care about any of this at that time.
Low interest rates and loose lending practices, essentially. Not tariffs.
Tariffs imposed all over the world.
Could we say that Donald Trump has started World War 3?
Yes - in the sense of a slow burn. It is just starting to smoke right now.
Considering he wanted to annex Canada through economic force, I think this could be the form the next war will take.
Canada declared at least a week ago that trump has declared war on Canada. Listen to what Carney said with your own ears and eyes.
Carney speaking right now! Elbows up! =)
The US- the laughing stock of the world 🙃
i don't think the rest of the world is laughing. it feels like we're next.
I agree - this either is or will become global.
OMG this pun could be very funny, and I wish I could smile and laugh at it 😔
It feels like a bad dream at this point
I saw one the graphs on meidastouch last night....I have never seen them do that before....just straight plummet.
LOVE MEIDAS TOUCH!
As many wanted, T. and the Heritage Foundation, the real "Presidential power" , is totally burning it all down. Just sigh.
At what point do these Corporations start putting pressure on the Republicans to push back against Trump and threaten to stop funding Republican PACs instead of kissing ass to become exempt from tariffs? This HAS to be screwing their bottom line and I cannot wrap my head around how this is beneficial for them unless they are just looking to buy up the pieces after everything crashes to become oligarchs themselves.
No corporations will be exempt from tariffs unless they are completely 100% American made and sourced, which most companies are not
The world's supply chains got more and more globalized over the years which was good for the industries and also helped to create beneficial and non-conflictual relationships among nations, all those secondary benefits that the MAGAs can't envision (like not understanding the benefits of USAID) Now we are going back to dog eat dog. It would take years to recreate on our soil the kind of feeder industries to support our manufacturing, and guess what--we are sending back "home" most of the people who would fill in as the workers in said companies. If thousands of experienced professionals are going to be forced to make minimum wages because jobs are not available in their fields, that does not make for a solid, happy and stable country. Prices going up--salaries and SS and Medicaid going down. We are headed for hell. (can you tell I haven't had my coffee yet this morning? Usually not so bleak ...)
I don’t think it’s the lack of coffee sweetheart, we are headed for hell lol❤️
damned good question. this can't be good for their bottom lines either. they don't want to be set upon by T's goons but they also might want to have a future economically. so many just fork over millions to placate the beast.
I work for one of those banks as a contractor. I fully expect to lose my job.
Sorry for you
My 401(k) has taken a massive hit since the first tariff announcement. I mentioned I couldn't wait to see what this announcement did to it. My stepfather goes "Well it may drop but it will eventually go back up and much higher!" Okkkaaayyy suuuuurrrreee...😭
I sympathize. COVID did a huge cut in my retirement which only recently is above what it was 4 years ago....well, not so much anymore.
Does anyone else think he wants a recession so the billionaires can literally own everything. I mean when main street goes broke they can step in and own it all.
Absolutely! 100%
Sometimes I lay in bed at night thinking about how crazy it is that money is completely made up & it holds so much power.