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TACO strikes again! As expected, Trump’s “tough guy” schitck didn’t mean dick, and the Friday “100% tariff on China!” nonsense was reversed swiftly. The market, wisely, is starting to completely distrust the guy, so instead of utterly reversing its losses, it has deigned to give up just half of them. The /ES, for instance, spiked higher on Sunday and has been marking time ever since. You will note that the initial tariff-scare plunge (left side of chart) is fully intact.
It’s been proven beyond doubt that no one on Slope has ever seen pornography, but as a cultural artifact, I will share this map which shows how many pornstars per million citizens live in each country. It’s clear that the former Yugaslavia region isn’t doing its fair share, but the Czech republic is totally picking up the slack.
Chinese tech stocks are going down and will go much lower. I was already short Alibaba (BABA, famous for having the CEO with the weirdest skull in corporate history).
Here is a world of difference in what folks from different countries pay for Internet access. The folks in the sweltering desert of the United Arab Emirates pay 431 times what the gypsies in Romania are shelling out.
