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Trump orders 90-day pause on some tariffs, raises China's to 125%
- taylodl 2y agoI'm becoming more and more convinced this administration is manipulating the market so they can make money.
- xenospn 2y agoShould be easy to figure out based on trading history and time in the market. Of course, that would be an obvious and quite idiotic thing to do, however, it doesn’t seem like there’s anyone left to enforce anything anymore so they can do whatever the hell they want.
- taylodl 2y ago> it doesn’t seem like there’s anyone left to enforce anything anymore so they can do whatever the hell they want It's as though they believe they're going to be in power forever and thus never be held accountable for their actions. I wonder why they'd think that?
- mrbigbob 2y agoSo is Trump going to every few weeks pick a fight with a country, institute tariffs, tank the market, then remove them so him and his cronies get even richer? Great.. Im sure this will have no negative effects at all...
- ytpete 2y agoMain discussion is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43634806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43634806
- cjbenedikt 2y agoSo DJT blinked. His hedge fund backers probably called him 24/7 having lost a ton of money. Bill Ackman started it. If billionaires lose money they don't like it.