US Tariff War

[metalblue]

Call me a cynic but there's a huge chance Trump and Musk just bought a load of put options on the markets and decided to crash the market to get rich then buy a load of shares and pull options to get even richer again. That's the issue when you let millionaire business people run a country. You can't trust the fuckers

They absolutely wouldn’t do so directly and any unusual patterns would be picked up and investigated. Being pedantic they’d need to sell the put option rather than pull it.

is it possible? Yes. Is it likely? I don’t think so.

They are a pair of cunts though.

 

[SWP's back]

It wasn’t meant as a criticism but rather an observation that the EU use tariffs to protect their own internal markets. They additionally use regulations to ensure standards and keep a sort of level playing field. They’re big enough to be able to do so and there is nothing wrong with it in principle - similarly there is nothing wrong in principle with what Trump is doing…it’s the execution thus far that is wrong IMHO.

Massively disagree. Theres nothing even remotely similar between the two and the chief architect, Navarro is a fucking nonce.

 

[SWP's back]

It’s more the lack of economic activity that may force reductions in interest rates.
Stagflation.

They can’t reduce interest rates as inflation rises. It won’t happen.

 

[Mr Fraser]

Massively disagree. Theres nothing even remotely similar between the two and the chief architect, Navarro is a fucking nonce.

Ron vara dislikes this post

 

[Norbert D]

They absolutely wouldn’t do so directly and any unusual patterns would be picked up and investigated. Being pedantic they’d need to sell the put option rather than pull it.

is it possible? Yes. Is it likely? I don’t think so.

They are a pair of cunts though.

Investigated by who? Kash Patel?

 

[Norbert D]

They can’t reduce interest rates as inflation rises. It won’t happen.

Agent Orange already has the Fed on notice, its exactly what he will do.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

There is just no way that manufacturing employment will come back to USA in meaningful numbers as a result of tariffs. Certainly not in the short/ medium term. The structure of the market as you describe it will not bend to Trump’s will.

If you were a non US business looking to get a piece of Trump’s manufacturing utopia in the states. Building a factory, recruiting, tooling up takes time, how long would it actually be before a business saw a return on the investment to do this? What happens if he suddenly has a change of heart and decides to not agitate more trade wars? The more risk free way to to it is to take the initial pain of tariffs but then look to grow your product sales elsewhere in the world.

 

[Norbert D]

If you were a non US business looking to get a piece of Trump’s manufacturing utopia in the states. Building a factory, recruiting, tooling up takes time, how long would it actually be before a business saw a return on the investment to do this? What happens if he suddenly has a change of heart and decides to not agitate more trade wars? The more risk free way to to it is to take the initial pain of tariffs but then look to grow your product sales elsewhere in the world.

Can’t wait to see those MAGA maniacs in a brand new sweatshop producing Nike sneakers at $10 an hour or slaving away on those brand new coffee plantations.

 

[Norbert D]

We can only hope Trumps command is terminated with extreme prejudice.

 

[SWP's back]

Agent Orange already has the Fed on notice, its exactly what he will do.

And The Fed have already told him to fuck off.

 

[SWP's back]

Can’t wait to see those MAGA maniacs in a brand new sweatshop producing Nike sneakers at $10 an hour or slaving away on those brand new coffee plantations.

$10 an hour is about ten times more than they’d get.

 

[jimharri]

 

[BlueHammer85]

 

[whitenoise]

I'm calling bs on that. Penguins can't fly.

 

[jimharri]

I'm calling bs on that. Penguins can't fly.

They're genetically modified penguins, they can fly.


They believe they can touch the sky.

 

[KS55]

A good run down of the current markets showing the effect of hedge fund
positions.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Not sure if it's been posted already, but here we go.

Jarred Kushner found Trump's economics advisor Peter Navarro on Amazon Bookstore (absolutely not a typo).

Report: Kushner found Trump advisor Navarro by browsing Amazon

Jared Kushner found a White House economic advisor by browsing Amazon, Vanity Fair reported Saturday.Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, was asked by Trump to …

thehill.com

Peter Navarro is the 'genius' who suggested tariffs to Trump as a surefire economic winner. In a number of Navarro's books on the subject, he cites 'expert economist' Ron Vara.

Ron Vara, as many of you may have spotted already is an anagram of Navarro, and is a COMPLETELY FICTIONAL CHARACTER.

That's right, made up.

Let that sink in.

 

[KS55]

If you were a non US business looking to get a piece of Trump’s manufacturing utopia in the states. Building a factory, recruiting, tooling up takes time, how long would it actually be before a business saw a return on the investment to do this? What happens if he suddenly has a change of heart and decides to not agitate more trade wars? The more risk free way to to it is to take the initial pain of tariffs but then look to grow your product sales elsewhere in the world.

If Trump goes in four years and the Dems get the WH and Congress, the need for moving manufacturing to USA disappears before your factory is built.

 

[SWP's back]

Not sure if it's been posted already, but here we go.

Jarred Kushner found Trump's economics advisor Peter Navarro on Amazon Bookstore (absolutely not a typo).

Report: Kushner found Trump advisor Navarro by browsing Amazon

Jared Kushner found a White House economic advisor by browsing Amazon, Vanity Fair reported Saturday.Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, was asked by Trump to …

thehill.com

Peter Navarro is the 'genius' who suggested tariffs to Trump as a surefire economic winner. In a number of Navarro's books on the subject, he cites 'expert economist' Ron Vara.

Ron Vara, as many of you may have spotted already is an anagram of Navarro, and is a COMPLETELY FICTIONAL CHARACTER.

That's right, made up.

Let that sink in.

We live in Idiocracy

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

We live in Idiocracy

We really do.