IMSA_Fan

It’s not just Japan and China. It’s the entire world vs the US and Trump’s tariff agenda

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Class action law suit from Tesla share holders for the WSJ driving down the stock price. Should be enough to bankrupt the WSJ. I don't know...I'm no lawyer...sounds good though.

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The stock price after hours is up since the article was posted

I kind of want to know the price of a good on Amazon before I put it in my cart.

Why don’t they just raise the age that people can begin to draw SS and Medicare to 68 (or have some sliding age scale that balances it all out)? I feel like that would fix a lot of the issues.

The EU’s economic isn’t growing - thus the reason for cutting rates

I think they realized dumping the TSLA stock did a lot more damage to Elon and just started doing that instead

Just out of curiosity, would you vote for him again knowing what you do now

How much you want to bet Trump loaded up on Apple and Nvida stock

That option will cause a ton of inflation though which I’m not sure Powell has the stomach for. I’m guessing he would prefer to use his leverage to get the President to back down vs expanding the money supply by trillions of dollars

Trump’s hands are totally tied on all of the tariff implementation until his administration figures out how they are going to address the spikes in the bond market and ensure the USD does not bleed more value. China holds the biggest trump card in the fact that they own $700B in US bonds that they can dump into the market which would cause a massive disruption in the bond market and spike the 10Y (e,g., the cost of borrowing in the US which would blow out the deficit). I’ve got zero clue how the administration is going to counter that. The best option they’ve got if they want to continue to fight this tariff war is to put pressure on the Fed to buy up treasury bonds (quantitative easing) but that will lead to more inflation on top of the increased costs from the tariffs.

The administration put all of their chips in the “the bond rates will fall and the USD will gain value as the stock market bleeds” basket and for the first time in 8 market down turns, that did not happen. The US is not currently where investors want to put their capital in their flight to safety

Also, the even bigger trump card that Xi has is that his party doesn’t have to put up with elections, has full control over the media and the Chinese people can endure a lot more suffering than the American population.

Finally, Trump made a massive mistake by showing his hand by saying the bond market is his Achilles heel when the world holds 40% of all US Treasuries outstanding and can threaten to dump them