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Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

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Re: Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

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Post by embeng4096 »

somanyphotons wrote: post #155
freetanga wrote: post #104

The stock exchange and the tariffs are not the battleground. Asia started dropping US treasury bills. 30 year bills reached a max in decades Trump blinked. Edit: this was front and center in Financial Times, WSJ three hours ago. Now suddenly pushed back, exchange rally being front page news. People don’t understand how close to financial apocalypse we have been. Somebody in the WH scared the shit out of Trump.

Do you have a link or article title for reading about the dropping of tbills

From CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/us-treasury-yields-investors...

> "Perhaps even more alarmingly, U.S. Treasury markets are also experiencing an incredibly aggressive selloff..."

> The largest holders of Treasurys are Japan, China and the U.K.,...

Re: Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

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Post by acdha »

JackYoustra wrote: post #176
skyyler wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's almost like the whole point is just to enable insider trading on a scale we've never seen before.

Doesn't make much sense, if you're insider trading you profit more if you move one stock a lotlotlot vs all the stocks merely a lot.

Buy the NASDAQ at 1:17PM. Sell at 2PM. You’ve just made 10% without doing any work. If you’re doing any kind of leveraged play, you can get even higher returns.

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Post by fancyfredbot »

jstummbillig wrote: post #159
skyyler wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's almost like the whole point is just to enable insider trading on a scale we've never seen before.

Is there any reliable instrument to find out? This seems so obvious, given the only alternative option seems to be believing they are completely insane.

You could look at https://www.capitoltrades.com/ in a few days. Of course you'd probably expect the average senator/congressional representative to be smart enough not to go insider trading on their own monitored account...

Re: Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

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Post by nineplay »

My takeaway from what I've read and heard in the last few weeks is that his only actual motivation is to 'win'. He bragged yesterday that other countries are kissing his ass to negotiate deals on the tariffs. I think that was all he wanted, I think he now thinks that this whole tariff thing was a success and he's going to move on to the next crazy idea.

The rest of us suffer for it, except for the sad portion of the republican party who's only motivation is to own the libs and who now are congratulating themselves on how thoroughly the libs have been owned.

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