Up down red green doesn’t mean much to me I’m on a pension and every day more of my grandkids inheritance gets eaten by the video slot machines so oh well.

Do the math, none of the plans nor the numbers add up locally nor globally for any measure of success.

And one wonders how casinos, which have the odds in their favor, can go bankrupt.

The measure of success by the home team with home town rules, might be the number of foreign countries which reduced tariffs, but the cost dollars might not add up in total. Don't be tricked with Simpson's paradox.

However, taking a grifter's/manipulator's/crook's/criminal's words literally, instead of using historical behavioral patterns, can be very risky to one's wealth. .

just watch the bond market for clues.
Less bad may still not be good.
Any failed treasury auctions will be not good for the stock market. .
watch the interest rates on the 10 yr and the 30 year interest rates. .

Remember Bessent was in the room when Soros broke the Bank of England.
He knows a trick or two about international economics, as well as both growth and bankruptcy strategies.

There are 3 years 10 months left of this. . and watch Bloomberg, not CNBC, where one of Bloombergs guest actually said in an interview, that he prefers Bloomberg where he doesn't have to read a script.

He seems to know what he is talking about. For another approach Google "Rules of Evidence" and "Character".

The CNBC halftime show is usually somewhat informative and I enjoy Squawk Box(6-9 AM) for the entertainment. Can't stand Cramer though.

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