Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

Post by layla5alive » Sun, Feb 22, 2026, 7:35 PM UTC

idiotsecant wrote: post #945

gcanyon wrote: post #938

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To the extent this is true, the entire thing could literally be a grift (I'm not saying Trump is smart enough to come up with this, just that people around him are, and he's grifty enough to go along with it): 1. Trump enacts the tariff, despite knowing it will be struck down. 2. The tariff extracts hundreds of billions from the economy. 3. Finance firms buy the potential refund for pennies on the dollar, knowing tha…

Trump has been obsessed with tariffs for decades. I fully believe he thought this was a great idea. Lutnick, on the other hand, quite obviously forsaw this eventuality (as did anyone who understands how power actually flows in the United States) and encouraged it while preparing to profit massively himself. It's an obvious play, good on him for getting away with it. It's clear at this point that this administration h…

Post by pawelduda » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 11:53 AM UTC

sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #249

pawelduda wrote: post #129

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Memecoins especially are so funny it's worth putting out some numbers: - $TRUMP meme coin, down 87% from ATH - $MELANIA meme coin, down 98% from ATH - $WLFI, down 50% from ATH, with 4 Trump co-founders The first two coins were actually hyped up so hard at launch that they drained liquidity from most of the crypto market because of people dumping everything to buy in

None of these were intended to be long term investments for anyone. They exist as a way for money to be given to the Trump family in an legally obfuscated way. Most of that happens/happened right after launch.

Post by sjsdaiuasgdia » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 7:28 PM UTC

pawelduda wrote: post #993

sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #249

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None of these were intended to be long term investments for anyone. They exist as a way for money to be given to the Trump family in an legally obfuscated way. Most of that happens/happened right after launch.

Not disagreeing that wasn't the case, but none of these were advertised as such, they were all listed by top exchanges as any other speculative crypto asset

Post by hermanzegerman » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 11:21 PM UTC

conductr wrote: post #978

hermanzegerman wrote: post #916

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So illegal actions shouldn't have consequences for anyone? That's a good way to deter such acts in the future

That’s a separate issue from where the already paid tariffs should go

Post by mandeepj » Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

chii wrote: post #835

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> 4) Seller gets to keep the returned tax money as pure profit Seller may not reduce the price as well. Thus, continues to keep the raised price due to tariffs as free profit.

Unless there's only one seller, why won't one of them just lower their price slightly to gain a market share edge and increase their total profit (even if margins slightly drop)?