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Calling it now, insider trading (If that wasnt obvious already, look at the market 30 min. before the announcment)
It couldn't be any more blatant. Trump himself blasted out the insider trading info 3hrs before announcing the tariff reversal:
3hr later:
Good thing the Supreme Court decided that it's an official act which is totally cool and legal.
I think I hear a dog whistle calling you, you should probably go follow it elsewhere
Explain what you think this means please
100%. It's been obvious from the start. This is probably the top secret part of project 2025 that is alluded to exist, but hasn't been documented anywhere.
4 years of these pump and dumps will kill off most small businesses, while enabling the nazi party and preferred oligarchs (including Putin) to consolidate and own the lions share of the market; stealing trillions from global investors and retirement funds, and attaining voting rights to control most corporations. DOGE's purpose was to eliminate and disrupt every institutions ability to document and enforce these crimes.
Agreed that it's insider trading.
But how will this contribute to monopolization of the corporate sector and harm small/medium businesses? Why would all of this increase their corporate control of other large corporations?
I'm not saying that isn't their goal, because it clearly is. But I don't see how pump and dumps necessarily help them achieve that. Especially now that everyone with a brain knows this is what they're going to keep doing
They very much have. China has just become a convenient "out group" for Trump to demonize.
The response will take a long time to come into focus, but make no mistake, this incident will do long-term damage to America's standing in the world. No other country trusts us about anything any more.
Many in our country are stupid enough to delude themselves about HitlerPig, but foreign governments aren't buying it one bit. They have intelligence agencies, too, and they know that he is not only an unrepentant and even enthusiastic traitor to his own country, he is a traitor to the entire Democratic Free World.
The worse he gets, the less the rest of the world will want to work with our government in any way. Eventually, we are likely to get hit with crippling international sanctions.
But he'll be using all of it to enrich himself and his friends, so he won't care at all.
Of course. He didn't even say he's cancelling the tariffs, this is a "pause", so other countries are still going to continue with their plans to make alternative trade agreements outside of the US.
"The economy, it's me"
"Great time to buy" could just as easily be "plz make stock market go up". You can't really make a decision based on that statement.
Yah sure keep your head in the sand.
Well, you and I can't. You'd need a previous heads up that it's market manipulation vs begging.
"funding secured" bought musk a ton of trouble. This is no different, other than there will be no enforcement of the clear precedent.
My point is that despite there being a public component, this information was targeted.
Someone else in my life mentioned this! I’ll need to take a look.
It's definitely happening. I think they seeded the last time it was rumoured too.
https://lemmy.ca/comment/15795114