Category: recession

Just Day #2 of Trump’s World Wide Tariffs – A Recession is now on the Horizon

April 4, 2025

The market freefall continues. Just yesterday, the DOW plunged by 2,035 points in a massive sell-off. Another $2 Trillion dollars just wiped out of the U.S. economy. A final report for the day will be coming after the markets close. Why does the markets continue to plunge? Because just as expected, China has retaliated with reciprocal tariffs aimed at the U.S. The tariff response is very high. What is the tariff imposed by China? Who cares at this point. What China has done was to make sure that its people don’t purchase American made products because they will be priced out of reach by most people in their country, and they will be forced to purchase anything besides U.S. goods. That’s how the Canadians are thinking too. Economists predict that a recession probability jumed from just 40% last week to 60% this week.

Why does China want to raise prices to their people. Actually, they don’t want too, as unfortunately China seems to know more about global trade than our president does. The end goal is to make sure that the Chinese people decide to purchase Chinese products instead on American made markets. That’s the idea behind tariffs. The demand for U.S. products will go down, and exports to China will go down. China will do what the American president thinks he can do better. The fact is that Trump most likely will not ever be successful, but the Chinese president most likely will because China will now have more willing trading partners than America. And if the Chinese president can’t do it all on his own, he will import from other countries, like he is already doing. The Chinese economy is surpassing America’s economy by a long shot. Canada and Mexico have made recent trade agreements with China, so they can import goods at just about no tariff rate attached. So China will be better off. America will not. Canada has decided to sell the oil to other countries instead of America. Previous to Trump’s trade war, Canada was sending 97% of all oil they produced to America. That’s no longer. What country in their right mind wants to trade with America right now. The answer is – NONE. Free trade will continue between the rest of the world, excluding the United States. So what’s left for America? As Trump sees it as temporary pain, the prices of goods will come down. If America can hold on as long as that will take, Trump may be right. The prices will come down because the supply of American goods will increase because other countries will not want to pay high prices for our products that they can purchase elsewhere at a lower price. American products with higher inflated prices will have to be purchased by U.S. consumers.  The U.S. buyer will not have much of a choice other than to buy American, as foreign products will become more expensive to buy. Since the products Americans will be purchasing more now will be made in America, the prices will go down. The ‘Supply vs. Demand’ formula no longer works in a ‘stagnation’ economy. The prices will have to come down to convince any American to purchase anything.

Unfortunately, America does not have the time to wait for this to happen. It can’t happen overnight. The auto industry is a prime example. Let’s take Ford Motors for example. Not a single Ford vehicle sold in this country can be made with parts ONLY made in America. If Trump put a 100% tariff on Mexico, Ford Motors would go out of business immediately. A percentage of parts put in Ford products are made in MEXICO. So in order for the cars to be sold in America, the part made in Mexico that are installed in Mexico will be tariffed and the parts, along with the vehicles will go up drastically in price. Tooling an economy in the U.S. that can handle making products totally in America like the automobile will take more time than Donald Trump has left in his 2nd term. Can the citizens of America wait for this to happen? Of course not. The markets are steadily dropping each and every day. 401K’s are dwindling, people are loosing jobs. Farmers are going to be decimated. China has just banned Soybeans from the U.S. Soy bean exports will drop considerabaly and some U.S. farmers will go out of business. Nothing short of a recession can happen if things don’t turn around.

Maybe Donald Trump has a trick in his sleeve to jump start the U.S. economy, but he has not given not even once ounce of the formula and the steps he is taking to accomplish this, other than to tariff the world.

The world economy is just what it states. It’s a world economy, and Trump doesn’t like it. He’s obsessed with tariffs. He did them in his first presidency, and he’s doing it again. China saw the first taste of tariffs from Trump in 2017. Now they are ready to confront him, and they are. Trump will never get the economy under control with the time he has left in office. The pain that America is experiencing will be felt for years to come.

Well, I didn’t realize that the stock markets have closed while writing this article. It’s even more dismal than yesterday, with the DOW dropping another -2,231.07 points, with the value dropping another 5.5 %, at least another $2 trillion in a single day.  More to come in the next article.

Since inauguration day, market losses now verge on $11 trillion. 

Markets Freefall – $2 Trillion Lost in a Single Day

April 4, 2025

The outcome is bleak, just 24 hours after Trump announced tariffs on the world. The stocks closed  yesterday with record losses, as the value of stocks within the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost about $2 Trillion in value in just one day. This is a tremendous loss in the U.S. economy. The only one to blame is Donald J. Trump. The guy that was supposed to save the world from a disasterous economy “on day one” as Republicans put it during the elections, now is leading America to a recession. And this is only the beginning. Meanwhile, after Trump reins damage on the stock markets, he decided that he did enough for one week, and he left the White House to fly down to Mar-a-lago to take a hard earned vacation, relax and play golf, while the American people have to try and figure out what’s next. Life savings, 401K’s and people’s lives by the hour are being destroyed and Donald Trump could care less. Companies are already furlowing workers. Trump continuously claims that the country must feel ‘pain’ at first and it will only be in the short haul. He’s lieing again, and he knows it. The pain felt by Americans will be for a long time to come, way after he leaves office.

What he did create is a new world of dis-order. No longer is the world willing to follow America, whom they thought would protect them. Reciprical tariffs from other countries to the United States are soon to come. Expect China to hit back hard. This is what the voters got when they voted for Trump.

So what happened with the stock markets at the opening bell yesterday, March 3, 2025?

It can be described with one word… S H O C K !

The markets begain the day down -1200 points, already a disaster in the making. But the day was just starting, and before it ended, the DOW Jones Stock Exchange dropped -1,679 points or 3.98%. The S&P500 was down almost 5% and the tech market known as NASDAQ was down by 6%.

All three markets posted their largest single day loss since 2020.

So that’s day 1 of the markets since the Trump tariffs began affecting countries all over the world less than a day ago. But in general, since Trump became president, the DOW is down almost 8%, The NASDAQ down at least 16%, and the S&P500 down almost 11%.

All gains in the markets have been wiped out since Trump’s election in November.

And it will get much worse.  A graph below illustrates the responses from the 3 major markets in the U.S. since the beginning of Trump’s presidency. The 0% mark is the start of Trump’s presidency. The decreasing markets are not making the U.S. economy any better. The country is now bleeding its wealth. The United States is NO LONGER the envy of the world.

Markets Crashed from the First Moment today – No Liberation Day but a Promised Recession

April 3, 2025

Right on cue. As predicted, the U.S. stock market has tanked, as Donald J. Trump, a convicted felon destroys the U.S. economy that was once the envy of the world.

As the coward Trump is, he waited until the stock markets closed yesterday when he finally initiated his latest tariffs, this time affecting countries around the world. And yes, he says he doesn’t monitor the stock markets. Just another lie.  It is now officially known at the Trump International Trade War. Trump owns it. He cannot blame Biden or Obama. No smart president in his right mind would do such a thing, but Trump is literally sick, and he is now taking the country to a recession and a lower GDP of at least 3%. Before his election, the GDP was expected to grow by at least 3%. When the markets closed yesterday, i.e. the DOW was up by 235 points. Traders were hoping for the best, but knew what was going to come as soon as Trump went forward with his dire plan.

The DOW futures just before market opening in just 10 minutes is down by nearly 1200 points. A total disaster.

Time to pause this report, as the moment of recogning is fast approaching. I’ll continue with this note when the markets actually open in 8 minutes…

9:30AM ET (MARKETS NOW OPEN)

OK, the moment is here.   The DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE, known as the DOW, closed yesterday in the green from the previous day of 235 points, up by just .56%. This morning it has now opened in the negative of 1,111.22 points or -2.63% from yesterdays close of 42,225.32.  I’ve been predicting this moment for months. It opened today at 41,114.10. That is just a total disaster, completely brought on by Trump, who wants to make sure that Americans feel pain. The economy is weaker and EVERYTHING just got more expensive. So much for Donald Trump promising that the economy will get better and that he would lower prices.  Some businesses will be forced to close. At this moment of time, there is the highest unemployement filing in the country since 2021. This disaster all happened in the last 80 days, when Trump became president.

The other markets that Americans follow fell too, and not by just a little. Roughly two hours before the start of trade at 9:30AM ET this morning, futures for the S&P 500 plunged 190 points, or 3.3%, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrrial Average and the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index sank 3% and 4%, respectively.

I am literally sick about this result from Trumps egregous disregard to the American economy. Countries around the world will reciprocate in their own way with tariffs against the United States of their own.  Like I said, literally EVERYTHING has just become more expensive. It’s like jumping off of a cliff. Once you jump, you will continue to fall to your death. This is what is happening to us now.

Donald Trump is a disaster in all things related to the economy. He’s the guy that promised to address the high cost of living, and he stated that costs would go down on DAY 1 of his presidency. That is not happening. Costs are not going down, they are going up. Inflation is going up.  No doubt the stock market is colapsing, and what that means is that the retirement savings of every day Americans are disappearing by the hour. It is all because of Donald Trump’s reckless mis-managment of the economy, as he knew full well what was going to happen. Economists predicted it and now these tariffs that he imposed will raise the cost of everything for everyday Americans in many estimates of thousands of dollars per year. Who gets affected the most? Regular people like you and me will feel the ‘pain’, and it’s not going to go away any time soon. Of course rich guys like Trump and Musk could care less because the tariffs don’t affect Trump. They will affect Musk in a way as it will negatively impact his Tesla business but that’s just a drop in a bucket for the richest man in the world.

Trump was supposed to help grow the economy, at least that’s what people voted for him to do when he became president, but instead, he is crashing the economy in real time. Today is NOT liberation day, it’s RECESSION DAY, because that’s where we are headed.

Most people aren’t aware of these things until it affects them. Maybe they will wake up when the cost of gasoline goes through the roof. That’s coming. I haven’t been wrong in the past, and I’m not wrong now. It’s coming.

All we can do now is pray that Trump shows his cowardness once again when he finally drops the tariffs, hoping that other countries will drop theirs. Yes, he says he doesn’t look at the stock exchanges, but I would bet any money that he is now.

Trumps Claim – Liberation Day is Tomorrow April 2

April 1, 2025

Well, today is April Fools Day, and it is truly a day for fools. What’s being liberated is your wallet, your paycheck and the economy. In the few days up to ‘Liberation Day’, the stock markets have been very unsettled. On Thursday last week, the markets crashed with a 700 point fall. But on Friday and Monday, the markets responded positively. This is known as the ‘Calm before the Storm’.

Now, idiot Donald Trump is putting his tariff wars on a worldwide scale. Chaos is visable for everyone to see. His reciprical tariffs as he calls them are meant to hurt just about every country that does business with the United States. As if the markets haven’t suffered enough, Trump’s aim is to deliver ‘PAIN’ around the world. And Trump claims he doesn’t care about anyone or their personal wallets. He claims that he doesn’t watch the stock market, but everyone knows that’s a lie. If he really does not, that in itself is a tragedy, proving the point that he doesn’t care about Americans and their well being. He doesn’t care if inflation goes up. Maybe all he needs to do is talk to his co-commander and chief Elon Musk, and ask him how the trade wars are effecting his Tesla business.

Markets, traders and brokers react in advance of things. They calculate their decisions before the big event to be able to capitalize on what’s going to happen.

Just so you realize this, Trump has already destroyed the tax base of the Internal Revenue Service. To run our government, to pay on social security, veterans benefits, medicade and medicare, student loans, there are regulations surrounding how things operate. Donald Trump is destroying all the norms and protections that the American people have enjoyed since World War II.

Trump thinks he can tariff his way to liberate America to eliminate debt, but instead, he is doing just the opposite. He wants to tariff to the tune of 4 trillion dollars. That’s what the economists say, and people who understand better than I what Trump is trying to do here. The only thing I understand from all of this is that he wants the money to give tax breaks for the rich, although he claims that he will also balance the budget, which is impossible, mainly because of the tariffs he is now imposing on the American people.

The American people are SUCKERS. At least the people who voted for him are. Many who voted for him are now out of work. Their lives destroyed from the king they thought would save our economy. Now where is it?

Automobile reciprical tariffs posed by other countries to the U.S. will cripple the U.S. economy. Trump claims that we don’t need help from Canada or Mexico. Really!!! Does he not understand that EVERY American car today can not be assembled in America without parts that are made in Canada and Mexico? Reciprical tariffs from other countries will expode the cost of American cars. Goods and consumeables that come from both Canada and Mexico will soon be priced out of reach. Gasoline prices will soon explode. Canada now plans to cut off oil exports to the U.S. while they also plan to cut hydro-electric power to a few northern states that depend on Canadian power. But even before they completely cut off the power, they will tariff their energy to American consumers. Prices of energy have already gone up. So tell me where Trump is saving our economy.

Doesn’t Trump realize that Ford and GM make their cars in MEXICO? You can’t built an American made car using American made parts. World trade has evolved in such a way that all countries are dependent on each other. Maybe that’s not the vision that Trump has, but it’s the reality that we face at this moment. You cannot just turn off Canada and Mexico if you plan to build American made cars.  There is a high percentage of foreign imports, including from Japan, parts that are installed in American made cars. Foreign and GM cars that go across the border during producion are subject to tariffs and the cost of these vehicles will skyrocket. Even if all of the Assembly lines for American made cars were in the United States, which they are not, car productions would cease, because the United States is not tooled up at the moment to produce all parts that go in American made cars.

Now personally, I don’t believe that Trump will go through with this ‘liberation day movement’. Why do I believe that? Because Trump is watch the stock markets, even though the liar that he is says that he’s not watching. The world economies and stock markets are reacting negatively to what Trump is doing with tariffs.

Consumer confidence is down at its lowest in three years. Manufacturing confidence is down at its lowest in more than ten years. Most major investent banks have raised their expectations considerablly that a recession is coming. The odds given by these banks  put the odds now at about 40%. It’s hard to imagine that just 70 days ago when Biden was still President that the markets were booming and the United States economy was the envy of the world. Now, the world is nervously watching the U.S. economy crumble, and is looking for a new leader in world markets, sidestepping the United States as the country to envy.

SO, THE TRUMP RECESSION IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER. He will own it. His Republican party will explode because of it. Unfortunately, the American people will feel the ‘PAIN’ from it. But we have just under two years to go before Trump becomes a ‘lame duck’ and his Republican party will crumble. Hopefully by then, it will not be too late for the Democrats again to try and save the country. But I don’t believe it can happen now until a recession happens and if this president is allowed to act as he has done since the election, a depression will come next. Then maybe the only being that can save us the ‘our Supreme Being’, God himself.

Stay tuned for stock market updates starting tonight with the close of the market. But what I can tell you now that just about all the gains the markets gained on Monday has been extinguished, as the futures show  the DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE now down by 231 points or .55%. Stock futures for the S&P and NASDAQ markets are also down. Tariff anxiety lingers which is not a good thing. The markets will preface what the traders will feel on ‘liberation day’ in which millions or billions of dollars will be ‘liberated’ from Americans who support our markets, thanks to a president who claims he doesn’t care how we feel. Also, you may want to check your 401K value as the week goes on. If I’m right, it’s not going to be pretty.

Wall Street hanging by a Thread

March 17, 2025

It wasn’t the greatest day on Wall Street today, as the DOW kept some modest gains throughout the day and ended in the positive.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed with a positive gain of 353 points, up .85% ending at 41,841.63. But the markets were jittery to say the least, as it was up at one point by 483 points, but in the last minutes of the open market, the DOW dropped.

The one basic reason why it did go into the tank today is because Donald Trump kept his mouth shut and didn’t proclaim more tariffs. But with that said, he promised he was going to make a statement to institute reciprical tariffs on any country that is imposing tariffs on the United States. In an attempt to destablize the markets, Trump will definitely achieve his goal ob April 2nd the date he picked to make the announcment.

Without a doubt, with just a few weeks to go, I can absolutely tell you that the markets will crash on that day.

Recently, Trump has received some very strong pushback fron Canada. The Canadians are not taking Trump’s threats lightly. They have been hurt, insulted, and not respected as a soverign nation by Trump. He claims that Canada does not have anything that we need and that everything that we import from Canada, we can get at home.

How sick is this guy? Does he not realize that Canada delivers at 97% of all oil exports directly to the United States? Doesn’t he realize that presently Canada is supplying electricity to 3 border U.S. states? Doesn’t he realize that Canada provides the necessary minerals that are needed in production of automobiles and computers and most electronics that the U.S. manufactures at home?

Trump has an end goal in mind. At the top of his list are his rich buddies that he wants to give a tax break to. He believes all the cuts he is making in government will pay for the tax breaks for the rich.

He’s gutting many government agencies in an attempt to crash the market so that prices will have to go down. His self induced resession will turn into a Trump depression.

Already, mortgage prices are down by at least 1% across the board, but that is actually a bad sign that Trump is succeeding in his goal to gut America.

Meanwhile, his popularity has hit rock bottom amongst Democrats, and the Republicans, many who have voted for him in the election are not far behind. Many recognize that they made a bad choice. The man that they trusted to FIX the economy is now gutting it.

Many laid off workers and closed businesses within the Federal government are now a reality, and Trump , along with his buddy Musk are not done yet.

Luckily, the courts are stepping in, while Trump has been defying court orders regarding deportations and the Judges involved are reversing Trumps orders to deport people and to close businesses. Trump has presidential immunity, and he’s exercising it, thinking that no judge can touch him as long as he wants to disobey judges orders when he performs illegal actions while under the cloak of the presidency.

As usual, I go off in a tangent sometimes when there is so much news about Trump these days that I can’t stay on topic.

Getting back to the markets, let’s see what another day gives us with tomorrows trading. At the moment, the DOW futures also known as the E-Mini Dow Continuouse Contract is down by 25 points setting at 42,200. Futures begain at 42,225. I will watch it throughout the night and report again in the morning.

 

Trump Threats Continue to TANK MARKETS

March 13, 2025

So what did Donald Trump’s threats cause today. Focusing on the markets, it was 100% predictable. The DOW ended the day down by 537 points, or 1.3%. The S&P 500 fell 1.39% and the Nasdaq Composite went down by 1.3%.

But Trump says that it doesn’t phase him. He indicated today that he is not going to bend on the 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum, vowing that any resulting economic disruption “won’t be very long.” His Treasury Secretary claims that Trump’s tariffs will bring back the economy. How, by some miracle?

The bottom line evident to everyone is that if Donald Trump does not start caring about the markets and peoples life savings, then the markets will continue to decline and the people will have very lasting pain. Trump says he doesn’t watch the markets, but of course that’s just another lie. In a very short period time, the markets have dropped over 4,000 points from their record highs. There are already talks about a recession. If we hit that point, not much can stop us to head towards a depression.

To me what is uncomprehensible is the fact that this country is declining from being on-top of the world economically to one of the least admired countries in the world. Many of our allies across the globe looked at America as the ‘beacon of light’ for democracy and freedom prior to Donald Trump, but now they are distancing themselves from America and the traitorous policies of Trump. Countries like Canada and Mexico feel betrayed and feel hurt.

I will concede that the Canadians and Mexicans haven’t been totally honest and reasonable regarding their taxes on products that Americans buy, but at least there was some kind of order in the past between the United States and our neighboring countries to keep the idea of free trade more than just a thought. The world seemed normal and people were accepting the world as status quo.

With Trump’s tariffs and the reciprocal tariffs, free trade is now about something that’s happened in the past. Yet, Donald Trump is trying to force the rest of the world to accept his trade practices, or else there will be a penalty to pay in the form of a tariff, when ultimately the American people will have to pay. Trump is realizing that the world doesn’t have to listen to him and they are not. Instead, they are picking other partners to trade with, leaving Trump and his America behind. Canada is now trading with the European Union, China and Japan, and for the most part is not charging a tariff on anything because these countries are not tariffing them. But Canada is now tariffing America, all because of Donald Trump.

The biggest trade problem in the world can be said in two words…

DONALD TRUMP

THE U.S. Economy Taking a Big Hit with Trump Tariffs

March 12, 2025

Today, the DOW fell again, but not before it started off in the green, slumped to almost 41,000 points, and then varied throughout the day, with a final figure below the start of the day. But, the loss today was negligible. Just .20% and just 82.55 points below the starting mark for the day of 41,350.93. The previous close was 41,433.48 on March 11.

So at least as the markets are concerned, the investors can breathe as sigh of relief, but there are still 2 days to go before the end of market close on Friday. The markets did fair today because the futures were good throughout the night, so the starting point today was higher at market open – 41,721.36. Because of the futures trading, the market began 370.43 points higher when it opened today but still couldn’t stay above water at the closing bell.

The problem is that Donald Trump created a catastrophe in the markets that will be hard to turn back or to even stop at this point. The DOW dropped over 1,500 points in just one 7 day period and even with the good start because of the futures markets, the DOW today dropped another .20% and still going in the wrong direction.  The U.S. economy will continue to reflect the pain people will experience because of Trump’s tariffs.

Trump claims that he doesn’t look at the markets. But you know that’s a lie. He watches the markets closely, but truly doesn’t understand the implications when the stocks go down and how much it affects the middle class and the poor. Within the last 30 days, the DOW has dropped almost 4,700 points. It’s known as the ‘Trump stock effect’.

Until Trump stops implementing new tariffs each week, and stops posting on X and TruthSocial the plans of his upcoming tariffs, the American people and businesses stand to loose lots of money and the economy will continue to sink.

But now the latest developments. This evening on March 12, 2025, Trump has initiated a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum coming into this country, from anywhere in the world. Now steel and aluminum prices will go up. Automobile prices will be hit and should be noticeable almost immediately. People will step back and not purchase automobiles,  because now they will feel they need to wait until prices go back down. So Trump is not done. His tool of destruction is the tariff, and with the modest drop today in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the week will continue to be volatile. Canada and Mexico immediately retaliated this evening with reciprocal tariffs on steel and aluminum. Unfortunately the markets should continue to tank tomorrow with this news.

So the modest losses of today with the DOW will now be stepped up and the day tomorrow will be a pretty terrible day on the markets. The markets will continue to fall, and now the destruction of our economy is getting into a territory that Trump may not be able to recover from. Again, Trump is not in step with the American people and doesn’t have much regard for their well-being, as they are feeling the ‘pain’ Trump claimed would come.

Starting around February 12th, the markets started to really start tumbling in a negative direction. On the very same day, the Russian markets started to peak. Trump made announcements about his upcoming tariffs and his stance about Ukraine, which sent stocks in Russia soaring. The Russian markets haven’t been this good since the beginning of the war 3 years ago. When Trump opens his mouth and supports Putin, their markets rally.

Trump appears to be doing more for Russia’s economy than he is for the U.S. economy. Trump opens his mouth, initiates tariffs that affect Americans, and our economy suffers while the stock markets sink. There are 30 major companies represented on the DOW JONES stock exchange, and only 11 of the 30 made positive gains in the market today. So 19 companies had losses in their market shares. Trump’s ignorance is on show for the whole world to see. He is treating the U.S. economy like one of his businesses. And on this course it will also go bankrupt as did many of Trump’s businesses over the years.

I’ll report on the futures market soon, and what to expect tomorrow.

Trump Continues to Destroy America

March 11, 2025

Never in a million years would I think that the United States would subject its people to a catastrophic event that is preventable. What president in his right mind would do such a thing?

The answer is no president, except Donald Trump.

He’s wanted to happen exactly what is happening. Chaos. He wants to declare emergencies just so that he can legally do what he wants to do, and that is to declare an emergency so that he can expand his tariffs legally, without the blessing of the United States Congress.

Keep in mind that what he is doing has been totally illegal up to this point, because the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT LEGALLY HAVE THE POWER TO INSTITUTE TARIFFS ON HIS OWN UNLESS THERE IS AN EMERGENCY. ONLY CONGRESS CAN GRANT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES THOSE POWERS. So Trump is creating his own emergency, affecting all Americans, so now he will continue to threaten Canada.

This morning at 9:15AM ET, Trump published the following Tweet on Truth Social…

Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on “Electricity” coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th. Also, Canada must immediately drop their Anti-American Farmer Tariff of 250% to 390% on various U.S. dairy products, which has long been considered outrageous. I will shortly be declaring a National Emergency on Electricity within the threatened area. This will allow the U.S. to quickly do what has to be done to alleviate this abusive threat from Canada. If other egregious, long time Tariffs are not likewise dropped by Canada, I will substantially increase, on April 2nd, the Tariffs on Cars coming into the U.S. which will, essentially, permanently shut down the automobile manufacturing business in Canada. Those cars can easily be made in the USA! Also, Canada pays very little for National Security, relying on the United States for military protection. We are subsidizing Canada to the tune of more than 200 Billion Dollars a year. WHY???? This cannot continue. The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. Canadians’ taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than ever before, there would no longer be a Northern Border problem, and the greatest and most powerful nation in the World will be bigger, better and stronger than ever – And Canada will be a big part of that. The artificial line of separation drawn many years ago will finally disappear, and we will have the safest and most beautiful Nation anywhere in the World – And your brilliant anthem “O Canada, “ will continue to play, but now representing a GREAT and POWERFUL StATE within the greatest Nation that the World has ever seen!

I can continue to criticize Donald Trump. I can continue to report what the world is experiencing with this lunatic. And I will. But everyone within this country of the United States of America now can clearly see what Trump’s goals are here. Everything Trump is doing has to do with a takeover of Canada, making it our 51st state. This is totally outrageous. Canada will not relinquish its freedom without a war. Trump has in effect announced a war on Canada. It is more than a trade war. It is quickly escalating into something that by ANY other president, would have never happened. Has he been coordinating this planned takeover with Russia? I can argue that he is. Putin is watching. He is watching our economy fall over a cliff, which is the biggest WIN Putin has ever had fall into his lap, thanks to our president and convicted felon, Donald J. Trump.

The markets are CRASHING, just as expected, down by another 500 points. The NASDAQ and S&P500 are crashing. A recession is on the way.  Unfortunately, this is just the beginning of the story. But there is no sense now even trying to report what is happening in real time. The causes of our PAIN that we must bear is known. What is still not known is the ACTUAL effect of the pain caused by one callous man, bent on destroying America. I will continue to report stock market updates, but it’s not going to be pretty.

Stock Markets Tumble Big Time – Recession is Knocking

March 11, 2025

What happened today was predictive and preventable. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 2.08% in value which doesn’t seem to be a large number, but anyone following the markets today can tell you that the fall was astronomical. That’s one word to best describe it. The market lost 890.01 points, and now rests as 41,911.71, down from 42,801.72. All of this was cause from the Trump chaos that he wants us to witness.

Usually some time during the day, in a normal trading day one would see the Dow Futures recover and at least break even, then fall, or move up and down in a normal trading day. Today was different. It was far from being a normal trading day. It was one of the worst trading days since 2009. The DOW ended on Friday at 42,801.72 compared to todays close of 41,911.71, thus a loss in market shares of -2.08% or -890.01.

Loosing almost 900 points in the DOW in one day is a disaster, on top of previous disasters from all the declines of last week. And what’s coming is predictable, more of the same. Professional investors that know how to play the markets when the value is high or when it is low benefit even from a bad day such as today. But country as a whole suffers on days like this. Let me explain…

Most of us just watch what’s happening and realize that a drop in the markets is not a good thing, but we think for the most part that it won’t affect us, thinking that the only ones who feel Trump’s pain is the people who actually trade in the stock market and that the markets will recover. But I’m not so sure that this market can now recover.

On a normal day, that would be true for the most part, as investers and people with lots of money to invest in the market make some real money or loose some real money each day. But experienced investers know how to read the markets, as they know how to buy, when to buy, how to sell and when to sell.

But days like today are not normal days, as the market is so volitile that even investers may be having problems trying to determine when to buy or sell a stock. Normal people like you and me notice what’s happening as we check our 501K values and other investments that we have as we are concerned about what’s happening, but we don’t have any daily personal experience that we can control during times like this. Investors do but we do not for the most part.

How many people are ready to buy and sell some of their stocks, risk less or more and follow the markets intently as trading investors do? Hardly none of us. We work for a living and that’s where we put in our time each day, and when we get home for the day, we listen to the news, watch Youtube and catch up what happened during the day and maybe watch the stock tickers throughout the day, but don’t have any real interaction with stocks each day. By then, it’s too late. The markets are closed, and we are left to see the results of trading for the day, hoping that the stocks that the stocks that ride with our personal 501K are doing well. Today was one of those days that you do not need a rocket scientist to know that EVERYONE of US lost bigly today.

You may think that there will be good days and there will be bad days, and that’s true. But what happened today, why it happened today, and the fallout of what happened is nothing less than as if today you watched one of the scariest movies that you’ve ever watched in your life time.

If you happened to be living on October 29, 1929 which the majority of us were not (96 years ago), you can remember the start of the great depression. So almost ALL of us don’t remember that day because most of us weren’t even born back then. But that’s when it started. The height of the great depression is told to be in March of 1933, when the commercial banking system collapsed and President Roosevelt declared a national banking holiday. Sweeping reforms of the financial system accompanied the economic recovery, which was interrupted by what is known as a double-dip recession which hit in 1937. It all started with the stock market crashing in 1929, with bank failures and GOVERNMENT POLICIES. The government policies we are dealing with at the moment are TARIFFS, a direct result of Donald Trump, DELIBERATELY tanking our economy. So yes, as it did then, now Donald Trump’s tariff policys is leading us right back into depression territory.

Somehow we have to right the ship, but right now the ship is sinking and our government is not doing a darn thing to stop it, but doing everything to cause the ship to sink. Our economy is in desperite trouble at the moment. Canada has continuedd 25% tariffs against the United States in retaliation of Trump’s tariffs that he issued against Canada just one week ago. Even Trump said he was lifting Canadian tariffs for at least a month until March 2nd. Canada did not stop tariffs they put on the United States.

Trump is now threatening new tariffs against Canada, on products like Aluminum and Steel. The Canadaians will reciprecate. So where does that take our markets. It makes them nose dive to hell, and that’s where the markets are heading now.

Trump said that we need to “feel the pain” before things get better, and in that regard, that’s exactly were we are heading. If Trump instigates more tariffs against Canada, our closest friend and neighber, they are going to turn out the lights in at least 3 northern states in America. The power is about to get turned off, instead of just the 25% tariff that is now in effect that Americans must now pay for their electricity. There electric bills now have just gone up by 25%.

So Donald, who paying these tariffs? Not you or your partner in crime Elon Musk. Not Canada, but the people of the United States. Now they may experience TOTAL BLACKOUTS, including New York. Our New York Stock exchange is obviously located in New York City. So what’s going to happen with the traders loose their power and the market computers go down. That is the real posibility that we face today, because of the igorance of Donald Trump, thinking that he is the ‘Powerful Almighty’.

The world is so much interconnected these days, that having that stance especially with Canada, a country that we are so interconnected with, is just outright suicide. 97% of Canada’s export of oil came directly across the border into the United States. We were their largest trading partner, but since they cannot depend on us, they are going elsewhere for business right now. They are now working the the EU, China and Japan. Why? Because Donald J. Trump, our fearless leader when was supposed to save our economy, the reason why many people voted for him, has decided to instead, crash our economy.

How far will he go? That is the 50-million dollar question, but as of this morning, he’s not done and plans to continue on a path that will destroy America.

I’ll report on the market futures for tomorrow in my next post, and we will see where our ship is now pointing for tomorrow. This week is already turning out to be one of the worst weeks in American stock trading history as a government shudown is also scheduled for Friday. At the end of trading on Monday, if the markets stay open will already tell us if we are going into a recession.

A recession is a time in econonomicy activity that lasts longer than a few months. In other words, what Trump is doing may take a long time to turn around. Trump says we may need to feel the pain first. Well, that’s what’s coming, and it’s not something thay you can just turn off like a spicket of water.

In a nutshell, a common rule that indicates a recession is here is that there are at least two consecutive quarters of negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Contributing factors can be a loss in industrial production and retail sales and other indicators. The effects of a recession sometimes are not felt immediately, but are gradual and sometimes only last for a few month or longer, but the economy may not recover to its former peak for years.

Telltale signs are a dropoff in employment, as unemployment will remail high well into the economic recovery, so it’s a time that seems to drag on and on along with markets tumbling, which is EXACTLY what is happening now.

Why is this happening now? The U.S. economy just a short few months ago was one that was the best in the world. So what happened?

Donald Trump happened! Our country decided to elect a convicted felon as their president. That’s what happened. Look at his cabinet. Most of his cabinet would never even qualify for the positions that they hold during normal times.

None of this would have happened if Kamala Harris was president. All of the mass layoffs wouldn’t have happened. Peoples private information, social security information and all personal information now being shared with Donald Trumps minions like Elon Musk and his people who are pouring through our personal data would have NEVER happened. Social Security would not be threatened. Medicade and Medicare wouldn’t be in danger of disappearing. World aid programs throughout the world would still be running, but they are not. The markets would be strong, not constantly falling and the world would not look at us as no longer a leader in the world economy.

There is GROSS INJUSTICE happening in our government now, and our Supreme Court is also responsible for allowing a convicted felon, an insurrectionist who under our laws in the Constitution of the United States that we are supposed to follow should never have qualified to be a president, has relinquished our Democracy to let who I consider an autocrat, someone who cozys up to Putin, and someone who would sell his soul and is doing just that to get his name on EVERYTHING, IS DESTROYING AMERICA.

Passionite about this I am, as I’m just as disgusted that this had to happen to our country, in a time that democracy and America was admired by the entire world. Now, the world is treating America as an outcast. The American dollar value s falling, and all of a sudden America is not as strong as we had hoped. Democracy is fragile, and what is happening now is a test of the American people to push past this, but first we still must figure out how to.

An update to the markets for Tuesday will be published soon.