Stock Market Crash

HooRU · 2025-04-04T02:42:14+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/trump-tariffs-stock-market-news-updates-today The economy looks bleak. Everyone is letting go of staff, the government is shutting down branches and letting go of our brain trust. The crazy thing is this is all manufactured and not natural trends. It is preventable. Uncertainty is the word of the day.

px_eliezer_

urbanriot In your words, what do you believe is chaotic about what’s transpired? Was there not a prelude to recent events?

What’s chaotic ??

Everything !

Maybe the word chaos has a different meaning up there. 🙁

One morning around 1985, I was driving home after more than a 24-hour work shift.

A woman pulled her car next to mine at a traffic light, rolled down her window, and asked me for directions for a totally different part of the metro NY region.

Exhausted, all I could think to yell back at her was, Lady, you are more lost than most people can ever be!

So it is here.

g121

urbanriot .. what do you believe is chaotic about what’s transpired?

What is chaotic? LOL, seriously. Changing global trade policy day after day after day after day .. does not resemble stability with a cohesive plan/approach to legitimately foster a framework for honest negotiation .. it’s more akin to local hoodlums threatening to burn down your shop unless you pay ‘protection money’.

Dks01

Dks01 A more trenchant comment about who “blinked”. It wasn’t Canada. It wasn’t Japan. It was the current White House occupant. And yes, Canada made him blink. Not by something sharp and crude but by a slow, multi-nation squeeze. Donald Trump may be a ’dealer", but when the house holds all the cards, you can’t win.

Let’s talk about the moment Donald Trump blinked. It wasn’t loud. It wasn’t a tweetstorm or a rally rant. When the tariff threats that had the world on edge—125% on China, 25% on Canada’s autos, a global trade war in the making—suddenly softened. A “pause,” he called it. A complete turnaround from the chest-thumping of the past week. And the reason? Mark Carney and a slow, deliberate financial maneuver that most people didn’t even notice: the coordinated Treasury bond slow bleed.

This wasn’t about bravado. It was about leverage. Cold, calculated, and devastatingly effective.

Trump’s pause wasn’t because people were getting yippy…

When Trump announced his tariff “pause,” it wasn’t a victory lap. It was a concession. Carney moved markets without firing a shot. He gave Canada a seat at the power table and proved that global respect isn’t won with bluster—it’s earned with moves that hit where it hurts. Trump talks tough. Carney plays chess. And right now, the board’s his.

Want the raw data? Check the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s “Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities” report. Look at Canada’s holdings. Japan’s. The EU’s. Then ask yourself: who’s really holding “the cards.”

OH, and will Canada’s tariffs and countermeasures remain in place until after the election on April 28th? Yup.

Carney made sure to tell the world that despite Trump kissing our northern ring, we’re not negotiating shit until after the election. He also said we’re still moving away from our relationship with the US for greener, saner pastures.

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet?

telcodad

Astyanax telcodad I guess I’ll be picking up some of those gold bars on my next trip to Costco. 😉

…that they sell at the spot price. Great idea.

/s

Gold can go down as fast as it went up. If you’re day trading and have some cajoles trade leveraged ETFs in this market.

Yeah, while it may be convenient, Costco is not a great place to buy gold:

Costco gold: Everything to know about buying the metal at the retail chain
By Tim Maxwell, CBS News - February 28, 2025
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/costco-gold-everything-to-know-about-buying-the-metal-at-the-retail-chain/

ElQuintron

Alright everyone, this has meandered long and far, and landed into an almost entirely political discussion. We will be closing the thread on good note.

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