Infopost | 2025.04.07
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Time capsule moment: people posted Ghibli AI selfies on social media, everyone loathed it. But I needed a picture with medicine in the color of stonks going down. |
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What just happened? At 10:10 AM ET, rumors emerged that the White House was considering a "90-day tariff pause." At 10:15 AM ET, CNBC reported that Trump is considering a 90-day pause on tariffs for ALL countries except for China. By 10:18 AM ET, the S&P 500 had added over +$3 TRILLION in market cap from its low. At 10:25 AM ET, reports emerged that the White House was "unaware" of Trump considering a 90-day pause. At 10:26 AM ET, CNBC reports that the 90-day tariff pause headlines were incorrect. At 10:34 AM ET, the White House officially called the tariff pause headlines "fake news." By 10:40 AM ET, the S&P 500 erased -$2.5 TRILLION of market cap from its high, 22 minutes prior. Never in history have we seen something like this. |
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I think I am going to post "no fucking way" every 45 minutes today just to cause a little extra stress for everyone |
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SPY down 1% - Joe is destroying America. SPY down 15% - We need to trust Trump's instincts. |
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NOBODY CARES WHAT JA RULE THINKS IN A TIME LIKE THIS |
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Miran argued that other countries ought to comply with Trump's demands for more money because of the "global public goods" that the U.S. provides, including global security and the dollar and other reserve assets, "which make possible the global trading and financial system which has supported the greatest era of prosperity mankind has ever known." |
China seems to have drawn more ire from the president than even Canada. |
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The floodgates are open, we can now reply to everything with this one annoying phrase. |
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2025.04.06
GuhAfter hours circuit breaker, wow. |
2025.04.09
Breaking pointEnded, this trade war hasn't. |
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2025.04.09
Breaking pointEnded, this trade war hasn't. |
2025.04.06
GuhAfter hours circuit breaker, wow. |
2023.03.17
BoomA bank meme, Dodd-Frank, Glass-Steagall, and a lot of fingerpointing. |
ritholtz.com
MiB: Savita Subramanian, US Equity & Quantitative Strategy, Bank of America - The Big PictureMacro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media |
www.brookings.edu
How voters feel about the economy: 4 takeaways from the latest polls | BrookingsBrookings Senior Fellow William Galston takes a look at Americans views of the economy and how they could impact the 2024 election. |
www.nextgov.com
US sanctions Chinese firm behind sweeping Salt Typhoon telecom hacks - Nextgov/FCWThe Treasury Department also sanctioned an individual involved in recent Chinese hacks into its own systems. |