re: The tariff policy and rollout has been absolutely terrible. Mass confusion across industry

If you work for American companies, you are fine. If you work for a company trying to exploit Americans via unfair trade practices, reevaluate your life.

No thanks Grok

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It has been chaotic but it always was going to be such.


Absolutely not. Trump could have just said we would place reciprocal tariffs on all countries beginning May 1.

Easy. Firm deadline.

But this off, on, off, on, this much, that much, this much....it's amateur. And it's fricking a lot of industries.

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And look at what it's done to the markets. A strong stock market is one thing that saved Bill Clinton during his impeachment...if he had had Jimmy Carter's economic numbers, the Senate may very well have voted to convict. But when reelection time came, many people in the middle looked at their finances, they looked at their mutual funds and decided to stick with the known commodity. People did well in the markets.

Speaking of Jimmy Carter, Jim Cramer makes an interesting comparison here.

The sharp decline in the markets is troublesome because it gives Democrats a talking point they can rally around. Up until now, they have had no coherent message and no messenger. If the stock market continues to fall and doesn't recover, Trump will have gift wrapped their message for them.

The MAGA base probably isn't going anywhere. But if the markets don't stabilize and rebound, Vance is going to have a very difficult time with the middle and swing states. Immigration and transgender lunacy will be distant in the rear view mirror. People won't care about the issues that got Trump elected when they're watching their retirement nest eggs take a massive hit.

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I still can't figure out if Trump is trolling, or if he really is so fricking stupid as to think that a nation of 40 million people and the second largest country in the world is going to be only one state. Just for starters, you want to give a group of people so liberal more electoral votes than California? Sure, there are areas that are conservative. But if Canada was one state, it would overwhelmingly be blue.

Even if absorbing them into the US was a good idea, the only way it makes any sense is for each province to become a state.

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What's your portfolio done in the last six weeks? Or do you even have one?

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If you are basing your retirement portfolio on a six week window then you have a problem.

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I still can't figure out if Trump is trolling

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Again...this seems like a you thing.

you mean doing something we have never done before on this widespread basis, will not go completely smooth? Would you prefer we just did nothing, or better yet, waited on down the line until we were sure it would go over smoothly? No. Rip the bandaid off and make the changes now. Like you said, it is just a big negotiating ploy. Most people don't understand though, so they listen to the liberal scum on MSM.

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The Dow is down about 5% since inauguration day. On March 17 it was down about 10%, but it has come back a little.

The NASDAQ is down about 10% since inauguration day.

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Who gives a frick besides old boomers worried about their retirement

This country was built on the backs of main street not wall street and all monetary policy should be be made to boost main street

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How much did you lose?

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About 8% so far.

How dishonest are you these days? He’s told us EXACTLY his plan and it’s to lower other countries tariffs and bring manufacturing home.