Trump did it

He cracked the economy.
He barely got started and already managed to botch the economy in a matter of months.
We are now in a recession.

The manufacturing jobs will not come back but now we've pissed off the entire world, ruined the stock market, made shit more expensive for no reason, and yet he's telling us to hang tough.
This shit will take years to fix.

On the positive side, maybe he and his minions will be too distracted trying to fix and explain away their own mess than obsess over us.

This is all the fault of republican voters. Now they won't even get a dignified retirement or even cheaper groceries all because they wanted to hurt the undocumented population. All because of prideful thinking that the US doesn't need the rest of the world. It's an import/ service economy.

They blew up their standard of living with tariffs just to hurt the undocumented.

I thought about buying stocks and making a win off this, but lol, I'm not gonna try to catch this falling knife. This disaster has a ways to go before it ends.

I lost $15, 000 with the stock market crash though I haven't sold anything and I'm still buying normally. So knows maybe it'll work out in my favor. This is the thanks I get for believing and investing in America.

Investing in some of the best, biggest, and most important companies like Raytheon, Boeing, Pfizer, Blackrock, Tesla, Wal-Mart, Ford.

And then these companies in turn go and provide jobs to people and make America resilient and the envy of the world. So yeah, let's MAGA let's get these stock prices back up!

Im running out of $$ to buy the dip. It just keeps dipping.

Officially requesting that MAGA make line go up so moto and I can get rich along with everyone else that invested in America.

They are gonna bring back the stock market like you've never seen before.

I'm counting on the age old saying that "markets only go up over time". if they don't this time, I'm gonna regret some choices and wish that i had went to Thailand to retire and spend life of comfort.

So am I. Except another country also in the east.

These cowardly panicans.

We might get to become citizens one day, but the US with all the self-footgun tariffs is going to be vastly weaker economically and might face a massively decreased population as those of means to do so escape

China was tariffed at such an incredible level with the hubris that China needs the US more than the US needs China. However, the reality couldn't be more stark and scary for the US. China does trade with the rest of the world and the rest of the world represents 85% of trade for China. The US is just a piddly 15%.

China can find new markets because who doesn't love free trade? But the US can't spin up factories in time to meet demand. Nobody is going to build a factory for when the tariffs might not be here by next week.

Then to add fuel to the inferno the vice president foolishly calls them "Chinese peasants" in another display of tone deaf ignorance. Shenzhen China. And then you realize they have 12 cities larger than NYC with Shanghai is 2.6 X as large as NYC

Those Chinese peasants rocked the US's shit so hard by covertly offloading US treasuries to where the dollar became so shaky that the Euro, Swiss Franc and even the shaky Yen have risen in value compared to the dollar because they are seen as stable currencies. Though its not all China to blame for the treasury securities liquidity dry up recently, this tariff brinksmanship has caused traders to unwind their leveraged bond trades because interest rates have risen and now they are getting shredded.

So my prediction, is that theres more economic pain on the horizon unless theres another temporary pause. Apparently the goal is to crash the economy so the bonds can be refinanced at much cheaper rates to avoid a debt disaster. Its going to be very tough and very challenging And it all could've been avoided with sane and stable currencies backed by gold or even a basket of metals.

I think if they really do carry out mass deportations the Chinese are going to bring Taiwan under heel while the US is tied up in domestic affairs with a manpower and production crunch. They need the US to be unavailable, but in any case it seems like the administration doesn't care much about tiny Taiwan.