re: Did Any Posters Predicting Gloom & Doom For the Market & Economy Due To Trump's Tariffs...

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Nobody's spiking the football.

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You fools were posting PRESENT TENSE about the stock market and economy and acting like Trump had buried us in an economic sense.

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Link me to those comments I made.

You already tried to detail another thread with this claim.

Now, you've given yourself enough wiggle room by using terms like "gloom and doom", so I know the pivot is coming.

I did attack tangentially-related goals/rhetoric around tariffs.

Like in this thread about how tariffs were to "bring manufacturing back"

Or this thread I made specifically about the "refi" plan re: tariffs

Here is a thread about Trump using AOC/Bernie arguments, not directly tied to tariffs

Or me destroying Victor Davis Hansen making an dishonest argument

Or this HHTM thread from when Trump wasn't even in office discussing tariffs (specifically a Friedman quote about them)

And another

Nothing about "doom and gloom", just various arguments by me thwarting various arguments for tariffs, and then me describing the MAGA framing of tariffs and how they give multiple exclusive goals that can't work together and actually project no set goal ("art of the deal!").

I don't even know if I commented much, if at all, about the market. I sold 0 stocks during the dip, on a personal level. If I was more liquid I would have bought more MSFT and other tech stocks. I had money tied up in various high-rate CDs and they matured after the dip (but I did buy more tech stocks with it, but didn't come close to maximizing)

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Those posters are now weather experts and have moved on

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lol

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Though I'm under the impression that most of them weren't heavily invested in the first place.

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Well, we must've been reading different boards. I recall it being full-on meltdown mode for the usual suspects.

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I recall it being full-on meltdown mode for the usual suspects.

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Oh, 100%!
By "fully invested," I'm referring to the markets, not the argument.

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Oh, 100%!
By "fully invested," I'm referring to the markets, not the argument.

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Got it. I misunderstood what you were emphasizing.

Rodger he leaves the downturns in the market create prominent losses even if you didn't sell. Taking Financial advice from him would be on par to just going to an astrologist

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Well, we must've been reading different boards.

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I think you are actually confusing MT discussions with poli talk discussions

Just FYI

Most posters were on here trying to explain the market going down was good and it needed to…

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Most posters were on here trying to explain the market going down was good and it needed to…

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There was this, too, but they don't want to talk about that

"Wall Street" v. "Main Street"

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s aim is for Main Street businesses and consumers to thrive even as the administration’s steep new tariffs threaten to tip the economy into a recession.

“For the last four decades, basically since I began my career in Wall Street, Wall Street has grown wealthier than ever before, and it can continue to grow and do well,” Bessent said at the American Bankers Association’s Washington Summit.

“But for the next four years, the Trump agenda is focused on Main Street. It’s Main Street’s turn. It’s Main Street’s turn to hire workers. It’s Main Street’s turn to drive investment, and it’s Main Street’s turn to restore the American Dream,” he said.

Trump’s imposition of higher tariffs a week ago has fueled the biggest four-day rout for stocks since the onset of the pandemic in 2020. The S&P 500
is nearly 19% off its record high from February, inches away from a 20% bear market.

While the wealthy own the majority of stock, Main Street’s participation has soared with the advent of individual retirement accounts in the 1970s and 401(k)s in the presidency of Ronald Reagan. What’s more, the stock market helps form business confidence, which in turn affects small businesses.

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Downvote for you being a turd burglar