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Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman on Trump’s policy and the markets: “You can’t fix 30 years of economic mismanagement overnight. He’s taking the right steps, but he’s moving too fast.” He also added: The bottom for the stock market isn’t in yet—sell into strength. The long… pic.twitter.com/CONDSUCR3U — Wall St Engine (@wallstengine) April 7, 2025 BILLIONAIRE …
Tariffs are the great equalizer for trade on the world stage. No more allowing the EU, China, and other countries that hate us get away with tariffing our goods while we sit around with our thumbs up our collective asses. Fuck that! Boomers and rich white liberals hate them because they only care about Wall …
Vietnam: Expressed willingness to reduce tariffs to zero if an agreement is reached. Italy: Pledged to support its businesses while engaging in negotiations. Israel: Facing a 17% tariff, has initiated discussions with the U.S. Japan: Criticized the tariffs but is exploring diplomatic solutions. South Korea: Signaled readiness to negotiate adjustments. Australia: Opted against retaliation and …
🚨 BREAKING: Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett says over 50 COUNTRIES have begun negotiating tariffs. “More than 50 countries have reached out to the president to begin a negotiations.” "They understand that they bear a lot of the tariff." pic.twitter.com/2k2RI1sXRA — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 6, 2025
BREAKING: India backs down from retaliatory tariffs on US goods, conceding to Trump. Officials now push for direct talks with the President for a new trade deal. pic.twitter.com/DJy1mSYIsz — Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) April 6, 2025 India is choosing negotiation over confrontation. In response to the United States’ 26 percent tariff on Indian imports, New Delhi …
by Martin Armstrong For all the criticism of Trump and the risk of a global trade war, as Macron wants to unleash a trade war to elevate France to the top of the EU, if we just look at the data, we can see why Trump has taken this approach. Even those Republicans like Rand …
Taiwan is taking a step to stabilize its financial markets in the wake of U.S. tariff policies that have rattled the global economy. Rather than waiting for the dust to settle, Taiwan has decided to preemptively act, limiting short-selling activity in its market to avoid further destabilization. The restrictions, which run from April 7 to …
https://twitter.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1908567682682675322 Milton Friedman, one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, believed that the Great Depression wasn’t caused by tariffs, stock market crashes, or any external force. It was caused by the Federal Reserve’s disastrous failure to manage the money supply. In fact, Friedman’s perspective on the origins of the Depression turns traditional …
Lutnick: April 9th tariffs will not be postponed under any conditions #MacroEdge — MacroEdge (@MacroEdgeRes) April 6, 2025 LUTNICK: TARIFFS GOING TO STAY IN PLACE FOR DAYS AND WEEKS -CBS NEWS — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) April 6, 2025 BREAKING: Bloomberg reports that as of Sunday morning, Treasury Secretary Bessent gave "no indication" that President Trump …
Bessent: Tariffs do not risk recession, not concerned #MacroEdge — MacroEdge (@MacroEdgeRes) April 6, 2025 Lately, critics have been warning that Trump’s tariff moves might tank the economy. But not everyone’s buying the fear. Robert Bessent, a top Trump economic advisor, just came out and said it flat: tariffs do not risk a recession and …
Bill Ackman sees the freight train coming, and he’s stuck on the tracks. The billionaire hedge fund manager, usually composed in the face of volatility, is openly spooked this weekend. You don’t see that often. But what’s unfolding isn’t just market noise. It’s a tectonic shift in policy direction with teeth, and no indication of …
President Trump just declared “Liberation Day” and launched sweeping new tariffs. Investors panicked worldwide as corporations published dire predictions of the bumpy road ahead. Today we take a deep dive into the pros and cons of Trump’s “Liberation Day” strategy – and reveal the secret back door to the financial bomb shelter the President left …
via notayesmanseconomics It has been rather an eventful week in terms of financial markets and economics as investors try to come to terms with a different looking situation. But a side-effect has been rather a quantum shift in bond markets and expected interest-rates. We looked at one feature of that yesterday in Japan where the …
The U.S. economy is a house of cards. It’s built on outsourcing labor overseas, enriching corporations that funnel those profits into stock buybacks and executive bonuses. This cycle artificially inflates corporate earnings and creates the illusion of growth, but it’s come at a heavy cost to the middle class. Real wages stagnate, living standards decline, …
Countries like Singapore, while lauded for free trade agreements, are masters of the non-tariff barriers (NTBs) that level the playing field in their favor. These barriers can be far more insidious than any duty, quietly inflating costs and creating market bottlenecks that disproportionately hurt U.S. exports. It’s easy to point at the tariffs, but the …
Wall Street wants sympathy because the music stopped. For years, they danced on a floor built from zero rates, fake growth, and free money. Now the lights are on, the floor’s buckling, and they’re blaming tariffs for the collapse. Tariffs didn’t create this mess. They just lit the match. The real structure was already rotting. …
STEVE BANNON EN FUEGO — THIS IS A WAR, AND IF YOU DON'T TREAT IT LIKE WAR, YOU'RE GONNA GET YOUR ASS KICKED.pic.twitter.com/RXb6uuqs6V — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 5, 2025 Victor Davis Hanson explains Trump’s tariffs like no one else can. #MAGA pic.twitter.com/hQ9RWxMx6Q — Freyja™ (@FreyjaTarte) April 4, 2025 TREASURY SEC SCOTT BESSENT WITH …
The illusion held longer than it should have. For over a decade, Wall Street danced on the scaffolding of cheap money, blind optimism, and the promise that the Fed could paper over any disaster. That scaffolding just gave out. Markets aren’t reacting. They’re breaking. What we’re seeing now isn’t panic selling. It’s the slow, steady …
Germany is considering removing an enormous stockpile of gold from a vault in New York over worries about Donald Trump’s unpredictable policies. For decades, Berlin has stashed 1,200 tons of its famous gold reserves, the second largest on the planet after those of the United States, in a vault deep underground at the US Federal …
Gavin’s entire life has been glitchy and a complete failure to launch. He is a charlatan. A fraud. A fake. Gavin Newscum @GavinNewsom's entire governorship is a parody. We wish it was AI. He is a sociopath and has no ability to lead, only destroy! He has totally ruined… pic.twitter.com/W23aRvzONS — Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) April …
🚨 JUST IN – CANADA PM MARK CARNEY: As a result of Trump's tariffs, an auto plant in Windsor, Ontario is closing for at least 2 weeks.pic.twitter.com/GON7n9TbWM — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 3, 2025 Fear and anxiety are running high in Windsor, Ontario, after carmaker Stellantis announced it will temporarily shutdown its assembly plant in …
1) 1996 Nancy Pelosi encourages all of Congress to back reciprocal tariffs 2) 2008 Bernie Sanders wants tariffs, says jobs are going overseas 3) 2018 Barack Obama calls for reciprocal tariffs 4) 1988 Donald Trump says foreign countries must pay tariffs Only 1 hasn’t sold out pic.twitter.com/6jqXqaYALC — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 4, 2025 …
GENEVA (Reuters) – China said it had opened a formal complaint against the new U.S. tariffs with the World Trade Organization on Friday, saying the measures violate WTO rules and requesting consultations. Earlier, China announced retaliatory additional tariffs of 34% on U.S. goods, the most serious escalation in a trade war with President Donald Trump …
🇺🇸 FED CHAIRMAN JEROME POWELL JUST SAID – ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TARIFFS LIKELY LARGER THAN EXPECTED, MUST ENSURE PRICE HIKES DON’T LEAD TO ONGOING INFLATION – TARIFFS LIKELY TO RAISE INFLATION IN COMING QUARTERS. POSSIBLE TARIFFS COULD HAVE PERSISTENT INFLATION IMPACT — Evan (@StockMKTNewz) April 4, 2025 SUMMARY OF FED CHAIR POWELL'S COMMENTS: 1. Tariffs …
President Trump just accused Fed Chair Powell of always being "late" to cut rates. Despite markets pricing-in more rate cuts, Powell is saying he is willing to wait. US stocks are extending losses. Follow us @KobeissiLetter for real time analysis as this develops. — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April 4, 2025 I think he is …
