Wall Street is fed up with Trump's tariffs. Stocks are off to their worst start to a year since 2022

[Frankenstein]

Amazing what chameleons these people are.
One day they wrote the marching for environmental justice.... The next day they're out there defending China who does nothing but pollute the environment. They really don't know who the hell they are or what they represent until they get up in the morning and get told.

Great observation, until the leftists tell the media, to tell people what to believe, they remain in a stupor

 

[wamose]

This is a reset. It's not going to be easy or painless. We let our companies outsource and then we let them export their products back to the US, tariff free. It was a form of modern-day slavery. Then we flooded our country with cheap labor. Companies got rich, stockholders got rich, politicians got rich from the kickbacks and the American worker-middle class got the shaft, big time. This country can't thrive on slave labor forever without having another civil war. It was going to take a smart, unselfish and strong guy to make us take our medicine and that's exactly what Trump is doing. Yeah, the USAIDs, the corporate oligarchs and the politicians that leech off of them don't want to hear it. They'd rather take the money now and bankrupt the next generation, selfish bastards that they are. Thank God Trump is man enough to do what's right to fix the problem now, even though he knows there are evil forces (woke liberals and the MSM) who will do their best to blow the initial effects out of proportion. Trump will eventually come to be viewed as one of our best Presidents ever, if not THE best. MAGA

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The MAGA cult thinks they are all economists now.

 

[Mac-7]

The stock market will come roaring back. You will be told it isn’t and believe it.

Why would investors sell off?

Do they think the stock market will just go down and never come back up?

Only dummies are losing money

 

[jbrownson0831]

The MAGA cult thinks they are all economists now.

We are smart enough to know who the real cult is, and smart enough to know that what is being done now supports Americans. Is that why you are making fun of it?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The stock market will come roaring back. You will be told it isn’t and believe it.

Not for some time, skippy.

 

[kyzr]

The MAGA cult thinks they are all economists now.

Well lets look at the facts:
1. During covid we learned that we don't manufacture necessary items
2. We are $37T in debt and pay $1T a year in interest on that debt
3. The US bond ratings keep falling, soon to be "junk"
4. Trump's tariffs are intended to bring back essential manufacturing jobs
5. Tariffs can be considered a tax, but we do need revenue to balance the budget and start paying down the debt
6. The "democrat's punchbowl" has been officially removed

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Trump wants to pivot the US into a manufacturing tyro again at the expense of the consumer class in America.

Let's see how much pain his MAGAs will suffer before they eat him.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Watch and learn

Only a fool can "learn" anything from Trump.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

We've been able to run large trade deficits for a long time because there is enormous demand for US dollars around the world. Dollars are our most valuable export, and we've been able to exchange them for vast material wealth. The global demand for, and willingness to exchange goods for, US dollars has made us the most materially wealthy nation on earth. We're basically crypto trillionaires minting the sovereign equivalent of Bitcoins.

The global dollar demand that sustains our prosperity is mostly a function of: 1. The global financial system we've set up through international institutions like the World Bank and IMF, 2. Our credibility as an ally, trade partner, and guarantor of international stability, and 3. The world's admiration for, and desire for access to, our markets and our ultra high-tech goods and services.

The US has been so prosperous for so long that it probably feels inevitable. There's been so much demand for dollars for so long that it probably feels like we can solve our problems by slapping huge transaction fees on all dollar exports. The international monetary system has been so stable for so long that it probably feels like we can just withdraw from all our alliances and institutions without affecting our economy.

The stock market reaction is signaling that's not the case. US dollar demand and American prosperity are not inevitable, and there's an eager competitor named China waiting in the wings.

 

[Frankenstein]

Only a fool can "learn" anything from Trump.

well since you are a fool

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Well lets look at the facts:
1. During covid we learned that we don't manufacture necessary items
2. We are $37T in debt and pay $1T a year in interest on that debt
3. The US bond ratings keep falling, soon to be "junk"
4. Trump's tariffs are intended to bring back essential manufacturing jobs
5. Tariffs can be considered a tax, but we do need revenue to balance the budget and start paying down the debt
6. The "democrat's punchbowl" has been officially removed

Manufacturing isn't coming back to the United States, at least not long term. AI will be taking over all of those jobs in short order.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Tariffs will not bring back manufacturing in any significant amount or number.

AI is going to restructure how this is done on a global measure.

 

[jbrownson0831]

Manufacturing isn't coming back to the United States, at least not long term. AI will be taking over all of those jobs in short order.

AI has a long, long way to go before it takes over any or all of these jobs.

 

[Rogue AI]

I'm old enough to remember when liberals wanted to 'occupy' Wall St. Looks like Wall St occupied them. How pathetic.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

 

[whitehall]

Worst start since the Biden administration? How come nobody complained about Biden?

 

[luiza]

Trump wants to pivot the US into a manufacturing tyro again at the expense of the consumer class in America.

Let's see how much pain his MAGAs will suffer before they eat him.

Gobbledygook from our four legged Troll Bot .

Tell us how a country that increases manufacturing capacity at the same time hurts" consumers ".

Which group are "consumers" Horsey?
And which ones are not ?
Explain your "Hurt" mechanism and evidence for it .

Stick to Hay , Troll Bot

 

[Man With A Plan]

“As Wall Street heads into a new quarter, a flurry of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are set to go into effect. That has traders on edge and has helped put US stocks in their worst first-quarter slump in years.

Wall Street has been rocked with volatility this year as Trump’s tariff proposals have kept investors in a cloud of uncertainty. The benchmark S&P 500 index is down 4.6% for the year, its worst start since 2022 and its worst quarter since September 2022.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-fed-trump-tariffs-134314150.html

The insanity of this, of course, is that it’s all unnecessary – there’s no need for tariffs, they won’t do anything to benefit the economy, it’s nothing but Trump’s blind, bizarre obsession with causing conflict and chaos.

Wall Street loves cheap interest rates and big government spending. They love it whether it's good for the country or not. When the market hits a certain number watch the people who are selling now jump back in. They know that Trump isn't driving the economy off a cliff and they'll take advantage of the market rebound. For the rest of you? There is a reason you're NOT in the top 10%! They understand this stuff and you don't!

 

[Man With A Plan]

That was when inflation was transitory

Just remember that the people who are now clutching at their pearls and wailing that the economy is in DIRE danger are the exact same people who shut down our economy during Covid and kept it that way for long as they could! Trump is actually doing something about trade imbalances and restoring manufacturing jobs in the US. That's a good thing.