Posted on 04/09/2025 3:17:31 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Stocks surged to one of their biggest gains since World War II after President Donald Trump backed off his tariffs on most nations for 90 days even as he further jacked up the tax rate on Chinese imports to 125%.
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Where are all the nervous nellies now?
This morning I was two years from retirement, tonight I am one year away.
TSLA UP 22% today.
Musk up to $359 Billion net worth.
LOL! It must have killed the AP to report this,
Why would AP mind reporting that Trump "backed off" on his policies?
I bought some stock yesterday towards the end of the day. And I am one happy camper.
Great news and “up your oomphah” libs!
So...I see we witness the dumbing-down of the language arts. The correct plural of index is not “indexes”...it’s indices.
But...that’s just me being a crank.
Back off? The 10% baseline tariff is here to stay!!!
‘ The 10% baseline tariff is here to stay!!!’
We’ve heard that before.
Here Charlie Brown, kick this football.
I made my ‘25 IRA contribution a bit early this year, spreading it out Fri/Mon/Tues on the SPY (s&p 500) ETF... I’m up about $900 on that move. Thanks, Trump!
I bought quite a bit of Tesla and Nvidia yesterday morn betting this thing was fixing to turn.
Needless to say I am a good deal wealthier this evening (at least on paper).
Trump got the whole world to cheer an across the board 10% tariff, a 25% tariff on autos and a 25% tariff on steel. Quite an incredible feat.
I have a few of those too.
An engine and a motor are not the same thing.
There's no such thing as (number) "point oh"...A whole number doesn't need a decimal nor a zero. (Like World War Two, or five bucks)
People saying "less" when they should use "fewer".
Good gawd-j'all!
“...got the whole world to cheer an across the board 10% tariff, a 25% tariff”
They were cheering only because Trump cut it in half allowing them to continue to tariff us at >20%. Money! Ours-to-them.
I really hope he follows thru with the other 10%+ and keeps China at 125% or more.
everyone EXCEPT the liberal left
This is now where the negotiations START. How do you not see how good that is?
People writing ‘could of’, ‘should of’, and ‘would of’ drive me ‘round the bend. Language arts, suffering the same fate as most of the ‘arts’.
I know I should all sides but they are nauseating and I’m really starting to just tune them out. Gave them a real try but they are quite thoughtless
Because 20% was the baseline before. Now countries like UAE and BHR, etc. that agreed to the 20% tariff will now want to know why they have to pay 20% when other countries only pay a 10% tariff.
Warped Liberals everywhere are once again chagrined that something good for America happened.
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