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Perhaps most folks think of Tesla as a superstock of some kind. It was. It definitely was. But the cold fact of the matter is that Tesla’s stock price is now pretty much where it was FOUR YEARS AGO, and those four years have been the biggest, fakest, most fraudulent bull market in history. Thus, staying stuck is quite the underachievement.
A quick glance at the Trump-worshipping perma-bull website Zerohedge reveals the disposition of equity fans, which is an amalgam of invincibility, giddiness, high-fiving, and ecstasy about lifetime highs, tariff deals, and even the desire to say, umm, WOW.
There were two big pieces of trade news over the weekend. First, your hero granted China YET ANOTHER “pause” on tariffs of 90 days, and at this point, let’s just accept the fact the Tubs is going to keep extending and pausing until he drops dead. TACO has struck yet again, because the man’s word means as much as his first two failed marriages, and the performative “Liberation Day” nonsense (complete with all the characters from Sesame Street’s song “Who Are the People In Your Neighborhood?) was clearly nothing more than a cruel joke.
