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During trading war the US stock skyrocketed. We live in an era where the wealthiest are made by devaluing fiat and moving the purchase power from average citiz

• KronisLV 11mo ago
  During the announcement of the tariffs and the subsequent period, pretty much everything I had invested dropped across the board: https://blog.kronis.dev/user/pages/blog/my-investments-in-2025-so-far/17-everything-in-the-red.jpg https://blog.kronis.dev/user/pages/blog/my-investments-in-20... (I was doing an experiment of putting 1k into a bunch of stocks each through Revolut instead of my usual bank funds and seeing how they do after a year) Yet it recovered afterwards. I’m certain that some transfer of wealth took place there, with at least some people panic selling.
  • bigbadfeline 11mo ago
    > During the announcement of the tariffs and the subsequent period, pretty much everything I had invested dropped across the board Noise. The drop was short lived, the news was used as an excuse to take some profits and realign portfolios, a lot of other announcements wrt tariffs looked a lot like market manipulation too. Then the market figured that foreign competition is being stomped in the mud and the officially sanctioned inflation is the new and endless excuse for higher prices and profits without actually increasing production in a monopolized and cartelized economic environment.