Eggs are definitely cheaper because disruption of our 2% egg exports not because of replacing the 100 million hens that were culled.

Whoever wrote this (probably John Barron) is laughing at anybody taking any of this obvious fantasy seriously.

I’ve talked to economists that suggested pretty much what this 4Chan thread said, but also that it’s not going that way. People didn’t dump money into bonds. Some bought stock on the dip. Most just kind of worried and sat on their money since it’s all very chaotic.

Especially considering that what has happened is that the government has been closer to being unable to finance their debt than whatever this 4channer is saying was supposed to happen. The stock market crashing did not in fact cause people to want to buy the government's debt. Not until they raised rates.

Now I don't know what they bought. Gold Maybe. If tariffs actually do put up trade barriers then there will be less need for other countries to use our currency which will drive its value down. That would make the government's debt cheaper. The stock market going down 20% does not. That actually creates Revenue problems because the top 1% who pay most of the taxes have the most wildly varying capital gains when the market is like this. People don't realize it but in our system the reason you tax the little people is because they reliably work and make money. Rich people post losses for some years. See Trump

Yeah, that's the main thing. He's doing something DIFFERENT than instead of just doing the same shit over and over again.

He’s doing the only non neoliberal policies we’ve had in most of our lifetimes.

The thing is, everything that has been outsourced overseas was done so because it was cheaper. And it wasn't a decision made overnight or just one thing that prompted it. It was a combination of factors such as taxation, unions, safety laws, etc.

This presidency will last 4 years; maybe we get another Republican after, but eventually they will be another Democrat president.

All these companies that are being incentivized to bring jobs back to the US have to be doing the math and deciding whether it's cheaper to bring the jobs back to the US and take the hit in four or eight years when all the tariffs get dropped again, or to just suffer through the tariffs for the current presidency until things return to status quo and it again becomes cheaper to have everything made overseas.

People look at it as a crash. I look at it as a haphazard reevaluation of the multiplier that security should have given macroeconomic conditions which the president just shifted. That is to say, they were going to go down. The stock market always goes down and then goes back up again, and it has been up. The president just gave people a reason to shift into fear mode whereas they were already looking for a reason.

I support that with nuance. The stock market must go up and it must go down in order to find an appropriate value for the current time. I do not know that there is any particular fixed value at which you say that this is where the stock market should be. This is merely the principle that everything is worth what somebody will pay for it. It's a question of optimism and pessimism spread across the masses. I can't tell people how hopeful they should be.

I think we are overdue for a correction, or we were overdue, but these things also do not occur on a schedule nor do they follow some formula. The stock market could go down 50% on fear. That would also be an appropriate response, though I would note that at that point you expect it to eventually come back up.

If I could really value the stock market more accurately than other people, then I'd have a lot more money than I actually do. I do pretty well. But I do not have magic powers. This is what you learn trading. There is no right there is only the right time.