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Err, no. If you can't see the Logical contradiction in your own position - I think someone else is confused.This post is very confused
How long before consumer confidence is back do you think? I'm guessing a good long while.NASDAQ is almost back to where it was a week ago. Still got a ways to go before it gets back to where it was when he took office.
Yes, very sad. From talking admiringly about a dead golfing pro's sexual member, to the latest potty-mouthed rants, he's just a deranged, fouth-mouthed old man. That kind of thing fits the pattern of dementia and senility.
If he cared about anything like a legacy, he should never have run for president.
It's been a long time since I gave up trying to understand why consumers feel anything.How long before consumer confidence is back do you think? I'm guessing a good long while.
Ah - please show me the conservatives who justify $8 TRILLION dollars lost and market confidence wrecked and America's international REPUTATION in the mud all in the name of a bluff!Apparently, you might not know about "The Art of the Deal." Also, I am certain that President Trump has far more "backbone" than the previous president. Whereas most conservatives had already known and understood about Trump's negotiating skills and the reasons for those tariffs.
Your focusing on the wrong thing due to your reflexive partisanship. It is also wrong. The "Democrat-Republican" divide didn't fully develop until *AFTER* the Civil War. Parties were still in flux before and during the war. According to his Wiki bio, Booth's listed party affiliation was "Know Nothing" (aka "American") Party, a notorious anti-immigrant party whose members largely ended up in the Republican Party (along with the Free Soil and much of the Whig Parties).Yes, it has. Completely and totally.
The Confederate sympathizers were supporters of the Democratic Party.
You don’t know what my position is. You’re just assuming that I am some MAGA following sheep and you couldn’t be more wrongErr, no. If you can't see the Logical contradiction in your own position - I think someone else is confused.
Yeah he’s a total failure that doesn’t know anything about business yet somehow he’s a billionaire.Trump didn't write that book. He had a ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz. Schwartz had one interview with Trump, where Trump gave some of his thoughts about his own business strategies, but most of it was written by Schwartz.
The whole thing was a scheme to promote his own brand. Trump actually didn't run hardly any businesses in the usual sense, he's a confidence man or barker that gets other investors to put up most of the money for his building projects, then he leaves other people with the responsibilities of figuring out how to make money off the projects, as long as his brand name is kept on the building or company. He also engaged in alot of predatory stock trading as extortion schemes, some of which was later made illegal in places like New Jersey.
Yeah he’s a total failure that doesn’t know anything about business yet somehow he’s a billionaire.
Unless the goal was just some short term gains in the stock market we don’t know the outcome yet as no actual deals have been made, China hasn’t backed down and in 90 days when the tariffs take effect again we’ll right back where we were last week.Billionaire investor Bill Ackman defends Donald Trump's tariff play.
If I were president, I would have started with a 90-day period for negotiations and then brought the hammer down.
By doing it President Trump’s way, the entire world and their citizens got to experience the visceral impact of what massive tariffs would do to their businesses, their stock and bond markets, and their economies.
We were able to learn who are the preferred trade partners and who are the problems, based on who showed up early and what they offered, and who chose to retaliate. Every country is now incredibly motivated to make a deal with us as quickly as possible to avoid the draconian consequences they will experience with no deal.
China has been isolated as a bad actor and every American company is immediately moving their supply chains out of China back to the U.S. or to trading partners of the U.S. who are likely to make favorable tariff deals with the U.S. Time is not China’s friend. As more time goes by, more companies find other and better alternative suppliers outside of China. So China is incentivized to come to the table soon and to be reasonable in their negotiations.
The countries that showed up first and offered zero tariffs will now be rewarded with more business, motivating them to complete their deals with us promptly. All of the above was accomplished with only a few days of market turbulence.
Some have questioned whether this was Trump’s strategy all along. We may never know. I instead focus on the outcome. Looking at the facts objectively, the only word that comes to my mind is ‘brilliant.’
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman defends Donald Trump's tariff play
His view is worth reading, even if you don't agree. (I don't agree.)alexberenson.substack.com
Unless the goal was just some short term gains in the stock market we don’t know the outcome yet as no actual deals have been made, China hasn’t backed down and in 90 days when the tariffs take effect again we’ll right back where we were last week.
<Looks at the stock market>Unless the goal was just some short term gains in the stock market we don’t know the outcome yet as no actual deals have been made, China hasn’t backed down and in 90 days when the tariffs take effect again we’ll right back where we were last week.
Shorter term than that. See everyone who bought the dip.<Looks at the stock market>
Uh.... That would be a failure as well. We are still well down from the starting point with nothing to show for it.
Buy low sell high has been advice as long as there has been a stock marketShorter term than that. See everyone who bought the dip.
Trump ignites ‘insider trading’ accusations after global tariffs U-turn
US president posted it was ‘a great time to buy’ on social media just hours before pausing tariff impositionswww.theguardian.com
Schiff Wants Tariff Pause Investigation Over Insider Trading
The Senator tells TIME he is concerned Trump engaged in insider trading or market manipulation with his abrupt reversal of tariffs.time.com
Of course. The trick is knowing when to buy. If you've got inside information on when a major change is happening, acting on that info can be quite illegal. Just a few minutes before Trump announce the pause in tariffs, someone (or someones) bought a TON of same-day call options for both the S&P and NASDAQ. You don't do that without insider info.Buy low sell high has been advice as long as there has been a stock market
We shall have to wait and see what happens.Unless the goal was just some short term gains in the stock market we don’t know the outcome yet as no actual deals have been made, China hasn’t backed down and in 90 days when the tariffs take effect again we’ll right back where we were last week.
A couple more months of this and they’ll learn to not take anything that President Trump says/does seriously, and then he’ll have to “up the ante”.NASDAQ is almost back to where it was a week ago. Still got a ways to go before it gets back to where it was when he took office.
No, it hasn't.Yes, it has. Completely and totally.
The Confederate sympathizers were supporters of the Democratic Party.
Thanks, I hadn’t looked since yesterday when I heard of the quick rise in the market. Now it’s back down again.<Looks at the stock market>
Uh.... That would be a failure as well. We are still well down from the starting point with nothing to show for it.
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