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Precisely seven days ago, the entire market was exploding higher in exultation that, gosh darn it, tariffs would be “narrow” and “focused.” Hurray! Huzzah! ES up 70!
Of course, that simply led to peaks over the next day or two which made killing bulls like shooting fish in a barrel, which is of course why some of us are here on Earth. Meanwhile, Bitcoin, which I have pleaded with folks to use as a harbinger of bad times to come, crumbles away.
In case anyone was wondering how the Trump Coin was doing, its market cap went from an almost instant $15 billion to, recently, $2 billion. You see how I made a pun there? Reserve Currency? Reverse? Right? Oh, go get some sleep.
Remember how arrogant Japan was in 1990, and how terrified the U.S. was that they were going to take over the world? Yeah. Not so much.
