Getting a lot of press today, that the Good Emperor Trump has put a 90 day hiatus on Tariffs, this the media is framing variously as "He's come to his senses" or "he's made his point", etc, etc.
Naturally, in this time of Global Uncertainty, all induced by a certain orange melon, following this announcement the markets rebounded. And a certain Bluesky user by the name of "Unusual Whales" noted that margins trading begun before the announcement, with some users seeing 2100% gains in a matter of a couple of hours.
Now given the downward trending of the market, due in no doubt to Trumps unpredictable tariffs and changing his mind; and looking at how this volatility is benefitting his cronies, it seems fair to say that all this is by design. This collapsing of the markets and global uncertainty is being done to benefit those closest to him in the administration, via offshore and shell accounts.
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/unusualwhales.bsky.social
What is remarkable is how few of the new agencies are willing to confront this, although - as well by design, he keeps them busy with sooooo many other things, like illegal deportations, arrests, gutting infrastructure, etc.
This does recall that bit in Brexit where Nigel Farage shorted the British Pound, in effect betraying the entire nation and lying to them about the benefits of Brexit so that he could profit from it. (
Many of the same tactics were on display, the Xenophobia, bring the jobs home, etc. And while Britain has to some extent recovered from this, and never prosecuted Farage, I doubt very much the USA will ever recover from Trump
USA. The new Hungary, Old Romania.