Posted on 10/10/2025 9:07:48 AM PDT by DFG
I would expect China to do anything and everything nefarious to maintain its ill-gotten hold on trade. No surprise, really.
Not a very high “cliff”.
Down 1.16 now.
500 points? Does that constantly throughout the day. And China requiring an export license on rare earths? Sounds like the same thing we would, or may be doing, for valuable materials. This is just Trump being Trump and positioning for more gains when he meets with PandaExpress at the conference.
Ah, the Daily Fail.
I knew before I looked.
Market manipulation, this will be gone in a couple of days, just like last time
Gee, I wonder what the Footsie is doing ...
https://patriots.win/p/1ARJYGvLqD/its-a-great-day-for-liberal-tear/c
Down half as much.
So is the Footsie experiencing a half crash, Daily Fail...?
A 500 point drop on the Dow is NOT “falling off a cliff.”
Cheap fear porn drama.
Lol. How dramatic. It didn’t fall off of a cliff. It lost about 1% of its value.
China is looking out for China.
“Cliff” my butt! It’ll recoup by Tuesday
1) There is no AI arms race
2) The issue is magnets. Neodymium and Samariam. It’s not some high tech esoteric situation. It’s that motors work B(x,y,z) X I (current delta theta) = torque. B is the magnetic field. The reason there are cordless drills is that neodymium arrived in the world and very little current must be drawn from the battery to get the same torque.
Multiply this by air conditioning, alternators, refrigeration compressors, motors for diesel/electric rail.
3) The talk will be how the US will have its own source. Uh huh. BS. Not within a decade.
4) They have cheap labor. They are going to dominate this and the talk about the US holding hostage airplane maintenance parts will get laughed out.
5) China is going to win this. We will have to beg and give up a lot —— maybe even Taiwan.
Lose 50 percent the talk to me.
Oh, and this is not about the stock market.
This is about a reduction in society.
IOW, the Daily Fail. :-)
Comedy
Trump has no hand to play here.
China is controlling Chips, Rare Earth Minerals and strict Export Controls now.
It will take years to bring new Rare Earth mines on line.
China at this point really doesn’t;t care about trade with the U.S. and can live without it.
BRICS is picking up other countries who want to participate. The Yuan is now being back with gold as is the Ruble in Russia. Payments for trade are being made in Gold not the Dollar.
BRICS is moving even faster away from the Dollar as the Reserve Currency and no loner buying our Debt. So who will we sell it to? Ourselves?
So the next action by Trump will be War with Venezuela and Iran.
Trump will not get any gains with China.
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