This place is toxic. All places are, if you spend too much time in one spot. Your mind and life force becomes stale and stagnant to conformity. You're laying down inside of a coffin breathing in the same air MickeyThe
Yeah but if you're laying down inside of a coffin breathing in the same air and laughing, it's dying happy rather than serious like a JW.
(CNBC) Is the trade agreement between the U.S. and China a ‘Trump put’? Markets S&P500 Close 5,844.19 +3.26% S&P500 Futures 5,848.75 -0.28% 10Y Treasury 4.453% -0.0897% As of TUE, MAY 13, 2025 • 03:15 ET Over the weekend, both the U.S. and China agreed to slash tariffs on each other for 90 days from 125% to 10%. That’s much more than expected, as Trump on Friday has said that an 80% tariff on China “seems right!” The U.S. is still keeping its 20% fentanyl-related levy on China, so the total duty on Beijing adds up to 30%. While high, 30% is a far cry from 145%. Investors were ecstatic, and sent stocks soaring. Technology names such as Nvidia and Broadcom, as well as consumer discretionary stocks including Nike and Starbucks, rallied. The market frenzy brought to mind the “Trump put,” the notion a falling market will prompt measures from the president that prop it up. That said, as Dario Perkins, managing director of global macro strategy at TS Lombard pointed out, it is ”(sort of) of funny that the optimistic case for Trump 2.0 is basically that it will reverse most of what it has done so far.” A Trump put, perhaps, is just the president putting things back where they once were. — Yeo Boon Ping
Trump does --> markets go down Trump blinks/backtracks/folds --> markets go up But you're missing the point of all this chaos: his, his family's and his cronies' wealth only goes up.
Traders keep wagers on two Fed rate cuts by the end-2025. Traders continue to bet on 1st Fed rate cut in September, 2nd Fed cut in October.