4chan theory of Trump's plan
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The one about encouraging companies to move manufacturing to the US is true, the others are pure speculation
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 still think the wholesale slaughter of livestock like that is maliciously wasteful.
It was maliciously plotted to strain Americans. There was no fucking "bird flu" just like there's no "Covid".
It is. "Bird flu" isn't transmitted by eggs to humans. Besides, you know what happens to a sick hen if you leave her alone? She either dies or gets better. In either case, she's immune to that strain of the flu.
Apparently, it doesn't work that way. The surviving birds may still harbor the virus and spread it to their offspring, who wouldn't necessarily have a genetic immunity to the virus. It's also a mutation prone virus with a risk of it jumping to humans.
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.
Of course not. Bonds have always sucked ass. CDs are better than Bonds. Baseball cards are better than bonds!
More than some.
True.
Mostly it didn't work because Japan started dumping bonds in retaliation.
Bond prices have the US by the balls due to the debt size. Countries that hold massive bonds hold a lot of leverage in this trade war.
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