Trump blasts the Supreme Court and doubles down, raises global tariff to 15%. European and other foreign leaders warn the new tariffs will escalate uncertainty and economic harm.

🚨TRUMP RAISES GLOBAL TARIFF TO 15% Donald Trump announced he will immediately increase the global tariff rate from 10% to 15%, following what he called a flawed and “anti-American” United States Supreme Court decision. He said the move targets countries …

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At Least 112 USAF C-17 Aircraft Headed To Middle East: ‘Desert Storm Levels’Tehran is not intimidated but that this raises ‘doubts about the other party’s seriousness and readiness to engage in genuine negotiations.’

An eye-opening and massive number of C-17 Globemaster military transport and cargo planes have been observed heading to Europe and the Middle East, in what some monitors have forewarned looks like the build-up to major war in Iran. One regional …

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Profitless junk stocks fuel risky rally: Carvana leads the meme stock resurgence. $38M market cap company raises 10x that amount to become a Bitcoin treasury company.

Investors channel 2021’s reckless mania again… WSJ article over the weekend saying that profitless junk stocks have been fueling this entire rally since April:https://t.co/SdspyMwcve"Shares of unprofitable companies have outperformed since early April, and investors are now speculating like it’s 2021" …

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Los Angeles Raises Sales Tax to Combat Homelessness – Endless Corruption

by Martin Armstrong https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PublicSectorEmployee.Homelessness.mp4 California’s homeless crisis presents the public sector with a valuable political opportunity to expand its resources. The state and cities continually increase spending to combat the homeless epidemic without producing any results. Funding vanishes into the …

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CHINA RAISES TARIFFS ON U.S. GOODS TO 84%

⚠️BREAKING: *CHINA RAISES TARIFFS ON U.S. GOODS TO 84% 🇨🇳🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/2N03lVFNIa — Investing.com (@Investingcom) April 9, 2025 What is even happening? China retaliates with more tariffs. 🩸🩸🩸 pic.twitter.com/xiYUvFNVKf — Ayesha Tariq, CFA (@AyeshaTariq) April 9, 2025