Is anyone watching this Trump car crash?

[soundsys]

WTF is happening? It’s like some bizarre performance art piece.

He’s holding up signs and shouting and throwing out hats it’s just 🤯

Looking at the graphs it really does look like there was a bump shortly before Trump announced he was pausing the tariffs. Looks suspiciously like at least some people had a heads up.

I think he is showing signs of paranoia. All the world is wrong, only he is right.

He may still be ''drunk'' with the success of his winning the election. Whatever it is, he is showing distinct signs of an unbalanced mind.

Should world governments sign any sort of contract with him? I wouldn't. I think they should ask for a certificate of clear mental health before they sign anything with him.

I wonder if that is why he has given the world a 90 day reprieve?

Perhaps a psychiatric report takes 90 days?

It's actually 32% for land travel
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-us-travel-fears-1.7506048

I was quoting his own words, but I see what you mean.

...and an MRI, psychiatric report, brain scan........

And despite his claims that egg prices are down 73%, facts disagree:
U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high average of $6.23 US per dozen.

Probably updated figures, yes 🙂
The tourist industry is going to be decimated. That was a question in the senate the other day about it.
We go once a year to the States, we are just not going now. Our American friends quite understand, they are scared shirtless.

Musk comments annoy me quite a bit too. Now he is pro zero tariffs between US and Europe. Just like that. In the middle of all this. After Trump has insulted Zelensky, abandoned Ukraine (including intelligence sharing!), sided with Russia better than if Trump was Putin himself, insulted most of the PM that visited him saying we abuse US and we do not pay our share, claimed Greenland, sent JD Vance there, destroyed NATO, forced Europe into re-arming and so on and on....
Now we have to also kiss his ass and engage in free tariffs..... So he can then change his mind and screw our lives whenever he feels like? Again? And, of course, they must think that no tariffs means they can sell whatever... nothing to worry about the ingredients that are banned in Europe...
Only an idiot would ever trust anything to the US at this point and near future. Sad as it is.

Senior people who worked with DT in 2016 - 2020, have said he is suffering from some form of cognitive impairment.

His actions and words certainly back this up.

If they sell them all that pushes up the yield (the effective interest rate) which means that if the Us wants to issue new bonds it will have to do so at higger interest rates (because why would you buy new issue bonds that pay a lower rate of interest than ones already on the market?)

Even worse is if China etc don’t re-invest in US treasuries as their existing holdings mature. They just take their money elsewhere and cut off the US’s line of credit.

You're not wrong. That leaves Bigly's mate Putin as a potential major investor. Fun times.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-stocks-trump-tariffs/ Not even slightly surprised.

Well of course she did. And as many friends and family as could be found did too. This is what happens when you put a mafia in charge of your nation. Good luck USA, you're going to need it.

So to possess insider information is not a criminal offence, to make public insider information is not a criminal offence (although it may be a breach of any confidentiality contract).

To act on any insider information for personal gain (even if you actually end up making a loss) is a criminal offence. Passing that insider information to someone else to financially gain is also a criminal offence.

https://news.sky.com/story/trump-tariffs-stock-markets-china-trade-war-latest-live-13209921?postid=9419491#liveblog-body

Well Nancy Pelosi and a number of other Democrats were rampant insider traders so no change there. Personally I think the lot of them should be barred from buying stocks and shares while in office.

Evidence?

The problem with @1dayatatime is that they are able to synthesise only enough AI generated economic information to regurgitate it, but not enough to apply it to real world situations. Like most Russian stooges, they're useful because they overestimate their own intellect.

In the real world there is an economic model in which tariffs and devaluing the dollar reduce/eliminate trade deficits and solve the US debt. But they don't seem to understand that even people who espouse that model (who, outside of Peter Navarro, can be counted on two hands) tend to agree that you can't accomplish it the way he's going about it. If your method is to throw random tariffs on, raise them randomly, take them off randomly, raise them again randomly, pause them randomly, lengthen the pause randomly, shorten the pause randomly, you have no hope of accomplishing any goal other than chaos. Which, of course, suits certain global actors. Trump may not be guilty of insider trading, but he's guilty of manipulating the markets which he and those around him understood very clearly he had the ability to do and which he did in plain sight.

Those are allegations that are thrown around a lot with no evidence.

However, Pelosi is very wealthy. Her husband is a venture capitalist who manages their investments and they say she is completely walled off from his business. However, like the Trump family, who have enriched themselves many times over during his time in politics, she is in a position to have inside knowledge that could potentially have an impact.

While I trust Nancy Pelosi a million times more than the orange mafia cabal, I do agree with @AzurePanda that members of congress should be barred across the board from stock trading while in office.

Nancy Pelosi’s personal market investments have consistently outperformed every major hedge fund. She managed a return of 54% in 2024 alone from memory. Quite the achievement. Her personal wealth (independent of her husband’s) is extraordinary.

There’s endless articles about it and it isn’t just her. It’s an outrage from both sides of the house.

Well, you can rest easy as I'm quite sure the now completely partisan SEC and DOJ will be set to investigating her soon, as they are now doing with everyone who has ever dared criticise the orange buffoon. However, I do agree with you in general, that elected officials should be banned from trading stocks and shares while in office and probably for a period of time after they leave.

Well that’s my point. It’s both sides.

Pelosi shouldn't be difficult to investigate as there are some many articles written about her stock market trading

Has there been another president posting 'advice' just before taking action?