Why do you think we will pay more in the long run? Do you really think this move is for us to pay more? You’re way off! We still have Trumps 1st term tariffs in place today, has that made us more poor? Nobody even knows these still are in place. My prediction is that our most traded-with countries will be negotiating for 0% tariffs, for both us and them. Do you think it’s fair for our farmers/auto makers/or any manufacturer in the US to have countries apply tariffs on our products? Of course not and that’s what’s going on now. FREE trade between everybody is the goal then everyone benefits.

Looks like Black Monday never materialized. Tuesday futures are way up.

And tomorrow can be way down! Today might be the start for a recovery or that date could be months down the road. We need to get some real hard facts that some of these 50-70 countries have actually negotiated 0% tariffs, or when our GDP goes up, then let the floodgates open.
This is some of the things I’m looking at before making any changes.

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Sorry to disappoint, didn’t happen, NASDQ was up.

DJI
12/4/2024 - 45106
04/7/2025 - 38165
Delta = 6941 (-15.4%)

Looks like a bright green Tuesday!

Buy low, sell high!

NVIDIA, Amazon.

Black Monday is gone, Beautiful Tuesday has arrived.

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IMO with the exclusion of solid dividend paying stocks, the market is a lot like Las Vegas. It has little resemblance to the what the hard working labor class workers are faced with in their daily lives. For individual investors it's almost like a Ponzi scheme. For institutional investors like Goldman Sachs with super computers its a profit making machine. The bad thing for our economy is that whatever "profits" are made by "playing" the stock market are not earned. Nothing was produced to earn that profit and no service was provided to earn that profit.

I truly believe the worst is behind us, numerous countries are joining us at negotiating table.

Yeah, I would say most people are living hand to mouth... paycheck to paycheck with no cushion.

At least all of us in TV are old and wise and did not panic by selling.

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I was born with nothing and I still have most of it.

What = sister-in-law ?

I swear that there is a large group of extremely wealthy Fund managers/individuals behind the OZ CURTAIN. Very adept with tools (incl Media) to play with their stock holdings on their whim. BUY and Ride their stocks on the way UP. Then sell at highs, just before instilling their powers to have the general Market dive down. Then, BUY LOW yet again, at the opportune time after another power move. Wizards of WALL STREET OZ riding their personal roller coaster.

And some of them could very well be sitting in seats in D.C.