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 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.

Trump Devastation Continues in America

March 23, 2025

Well, I’m done talking about the stock markets until April 2nd. I think everyone gets the drift. Donald Trump is destroying America. Let’s talk about him!

Trump is a FRAUD.

Trump is a CON-ARTIST.

Trump is a SEXUAL-PREDATURE.

Trump is a HORRIBLE PERSON who is an IDIOT.

Trump is a COVICTED FELON who is the President of the United States.

I cannot and will not ever support such a sick individual.

TRUMP’S PLAN IS NOT WORKING !

Canada has his number. Mexico has his number. Europe has his number.  The Federal judges have his number. Even the Supreme Court has his number. Yet, he’s such an IDIOT that on April 2nd, he plans to go through with his tariff plan that will be sent to countries around the world. He will continue to be sued, and eventually SCOTUS will put Trump and Elon Musk in their place !   IT’s COMING !

April 2nd will become the NEXT big news around the world, as stocks will again crash, so hard they may even close the markets early on April 2nd. Everyone knows that Canada plans to reciprocate every added tariff that Trump puts on Canada, so it’s about to get much worse for the American consumer. Trump claims that the United States does not need Canada. But we actually do. If the markets collapse on April 2nd, watch Trump cave in and remove the tariffs he just put in effect just 24 hours earlier. He’s testing the patience of the world now, and the world will not take his bull sitting still. They will ALL fire back!

Can the economy ever recover? Trump already caused people to loose at least $5 Trillion dollars who support the stock markets. And 401K Accounts and pensions are getting raped. Medicade in on the chopping block and the future of Medicare is uncertain. There is no end in sight, except an oncoming recession, followed by a depression if the markets can’t settle down. It is inevitable.  We cannot stay on this path. So many jobs have been lost.

Trump signed an executive order to get rid of birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship was explicitly added to the Constitution in 1868 when the 14th Amendment was adopted following the Civil War.  His action is TOTALLY ILLEGAL. But he doesn’t care because he believes his newfound executive powers of presidential immunity given by SCOTUS oversees any action that he makes as president, so he believes he now has the right, regardless of what the U.S. Constitution says. 

USAID is Gone!

Several FBI Agents are gone! Probationary Employees are Gone!

According to government data maintained by OPM, 220,000 Federal employees had less than a year on the job as of March 2024. They are gone!

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs lost 1000 temporary employees. They are gone!

The civilian workforce is heading to a 5 to 8 percent decline. GDP is no longer growing.

There has been $900 million dollars in cuts in the departments of Education services. Just gone!.

About 350 Federal Employees that maintain and guard our nuclear weapons are now gone!

The Center of Disease Control and Prevention has lost about 1300 probationary employees which is 1/10th of the agency’s workforce.

Probationary employees were also fired at public health agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but HHS has not released a final number.

From the Department of Homeland Security, 405 people lost their jobs, why, because they were probationary.  They are gone!.

The Internal Revenue Service will lay off thousands in the middle of tax season. They will be gone, just when you need them during tax season.

The National Parks service has laid off about 1000 people.

The Consumer Protection Financial Bureau has been shut down. Completely gone!

The Agriculture Department has been hit. There were at least 2000 Non-Fire Fighting Employees terminated.

Trump put a 90-day hold on most foreign assistance right after he was elected. All Federal Grants and Loans have been frozen as of last month.

Trump has fired 17 Inspectors General.

The Department of Justice fired at least a dozen attorneys that served in politically appointed positions that pursued prosecutions of Trump before he was president. He fired them because they tried to prosecute him!

Trump just signed an executive order to close down the Department of Education, which he has no authority to do. The U.S. Congress voted and approved the formation of the Department of Education, and he cannot get rid of it with a stroke of a pen. It can only be elimitated by 2/3 of a vote in both the U.S. House and Senate. Lawsuits are now pending. 

Now that he’s destroyed so many people’s lives, but now it’s back to tariffs. Another option can be that Donald Trump will again CHICKEN OUT and not put out more tariffs to countries around the world on April 2nd.

As an ignorant idiot and con-artist that he is, I think that even Trump will see the catastrophic damage he is causing to America, or is he just not smart enough to realize how this country is bleeding Democracy thanks to his policies and the permanent damage he is causing to people’s lives?

Canadians are told by their Prime-Minister not to visit the United States this year, and to make other vacation plans. Canadians are no longer flying the American flag next to the Canadian flag. Rather than accept higher tariffs on imports, Canada is refusing to receive the goods. They have taken American imported liquor off of their shelves. Trump is causing long-term damage to our closest friend and neighbor – Canada.

This is nothing less than a trade war that is back-firing on Donald Trump. He is becoming to be known as “The Art of the No-Deal”.

American prices are about to skyrocket. Food, fuel, merchandise from retail stores, restaurants, car dealerships, computers and utilities are now going up. The egg prices he vowed to go down are now going up. Fuel has jumped 50 cents per gallon in the last 30 days.

So this is the guy that’s going to fix the economy. In what way? I’m still trying to figure out why people thought it was broke, and now they our economy to a fraudster that has gone bankrupt many times. So many people voted for this fool.

Trump’s meme coin has absolutely crashed in the market, going from about $45.00 a share to now only $11.65 as of this post. The stock has lost billions of dollars.

He has destroyed peoples savings, the very people that have supported him to become president.

Trump was right. He said there will be “pain” before things get better. Well, the pain has arrived, and his hard supporters are also really feeling it now.

What about his media company called ‘TruthSocial’? He claims that’s his voice is the real voice of America, as he continues his con-artist skills to get people to sign up and donate money to him. He claims that he has never let people down. Really, Mr. Trump?

The stock price for Trump Media, known on the NASDAQ Market as ‘Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT) down down 40.48% in value to date in 2025, now setting at $20.25 per share, down $13.77 per share.

This is devastating news if you invest in Trump Truth Social. So in his mind, he’s not letting people down. But in his supporters minds now that have been directly affected by the markets, they are now looking at Trump in a different light.

Unfortunately, people who support Trump are realizing the hard way that Trump is not a good leader in America. Actually he belongs in prison. You cannot trust such a con-artist and convicted felon that he is. It is unimaginable to me on how SICK this specimen of a human being is. All of the billionaires are going down the dark road now, loosing money along with his followers.

Elon Musk’s company, Tesla, stock shares are now down at least 50% worldwide. The prices of the Tesla has gone up 100% in Canada. The sales of Tesla in China are just about extinct. China has their own electric vehicle made by a company called ‘BYD’ that is so much cheaper in China, that there is no competition. Exports of BYD vehicles from China to other countries is picking up big time. Even import fees to these other countries from China still make their vehicle more popular than the Tesla. These Chinese vehicles use a Blade Technology, and the Chinese have figured a way to charge their electric car in just about 5 minutes of time and there are literally millions of charging stations across the country that can handle the charging requirements of the Chinese car.

The world is about to leave America behind, Thanks to Donald J. Trump! And Americans will continue to feel the ‘pain’ long after Trump is finally gone.

Canada Openly Distancing Themselves from the United States

March 21, 2025

To understand how Donald Trump’s policy regarding Canada has ultimately torn the two countries apart, Charlie Angus of Canada has announced a travel advisory warning against U.S. travel due to increased detentions and deportations of Canadians in the United States. Without a doubt, the U.S. – Canadian relations are on decline and in full display for the world to see. Canadian airlines is now canceling flights to the U.S. and there has been a significant drop in Canadian tourists in the United States.

Obviously, thanks to Donald Trump, the political landscape in Canada is shifting, with the Conservative Party’s support for Trump backfiring, leading to a rise in support for the Liberal Party and Prime Minister Mark Carney. So now realizing that supporting Trump is suddenly not popular amongst the Canadians, Pierre Poilievre, a leader in the Conservative Party in Canada is now distancing himself from Trump and his controversial statements, including his support for privatizing healthcare.

Canada is now in the midst of what is called Snap Elections to be held in April, and because of Donald Trump, the Liberal party in Canada is now pretty popular with the electorate.

Immediately below, is a speech given to Canadians by Charlie Angus who is not a leader, but a worker, but is swaying Canadians to to stay away from the United States…

“Over the last 3 months, our nation has faced an unprecedented threat from our nearest neighbor, a threat to our borders, threat to our sovereignty, a threat to our very right to exist a an independent, democratic nation.

DONALD TRUMP thought we were going to be an easy mark that would be a pushover. Oh how wrong he was, and now Canada, standing up to him has made Canada the front line in the defense against the MAGA ideology. So no wonder Donald Trump and MAGA are feeling pretty angry at Canada.

What concerns me is the targeting of Canadian citizens who are crossing the border to work or to visit. We have seen too many stories of citizens being pulled out of airport lines and being fingerprinted and deported as though they were criminals, citizens being kidnapped through the legal detention by ICE. And it’s not just Canadians. We see the attack on backpackers, students, doctors, professors.

I am here today to say to Canadians to avoid travel to the United States, if at all possible.

And to call our government to stand up for our Canadian citizens who are being denied their rights by arbitrary detention in the United States today. Canada must stand up for our citizens and for the rule of law, because of what we’re seeing, with the U.S. harassing Canadians, is not the actions of a democratic nation.

People whose phones are being seized and searched for any kind of incriminating evidence that they’re somehow progressive or woke. That’s not the actions of a democratic nation.

That is the creep of totalitarianism, that is the creep of fascism. And we need to call that out.”

What Trump has done to the United States is horrible. It’s sad as an American to see what the Trump regime has done to this country. It’s humiliating. Thanks to Trump, the U.S. stand in the world is as low as it’s ever been. There are reports that European military powers are currently planning and working on a five to ten year plan to replace the United States in NATO. The U.S. is presently just one out of 32 NATO countries. Canada has joined NATO in 1949 when it was formed, along with the United States. Many countries like Canada are boycotting the United States as well.

The Canadian people are taking Charlie Angus’s advice. Flights from Canada to the United States have DROPPED by 85%. This is definitely going to affect the United States, the GDP and the tourism industry, and the beneficiary is going to be places like the Caribbean and other places where Canadians are going to go. They are going to spend their hard earned money at places that actually respect them. It’s really unfortunate that we’re seeing such horrific behavior.

Regarding Canadian politics, the thought of DONALD TRUMP has become a curse, and anyone supporting Donald Trump like the Conservative Party in Canada has, needs to know by now that their success in the upcoming elections is now extremely negative to their chances of election. Donald Trump did this and the Republican Party in Canada has Donald Trump to blame. U.S. tourism will crash this summer.

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.

The DOW Continues On Its Rocky Ride

March 11, 2025

Early Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1%, or more than 400 points, while the S&P 500 dropped 0.7%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite moved 0.4% lower in morning trades. At the end of the trading day, the markets ending another negative day with a loss of more than 478 points.

Just after the market open Tuesday, President Trump ordered an additional 25%-50% tariff on all steel and aluminum coming into the U.S. from Canada. The tariffs will go into effect tomorrow morning – March 12, 2025, according to President Trump’s post on Truth Social. That only means one thing. Reciprocal tariffs will be issued against the United States from Canada. There is no true winner here. Especially not investors or every day folks that go to work each day, work hard for their earnings and then come home and read the headlines, with Donald Trump in the news leading the way for markets to decline.

So who’s going to be a winner here? Truthfully not every day people, and unless you have the funds and the stomach to wade through the crazy markets, you will loose money. Is this the pain that Donald Trump wants us to feel? Is this what is right for America, especially right before a possible government shutdown on Friday. Hopefully the government shutdown can be averted.

There has been some hopeful days this month, but there is what is called the ‘fears index’, which just implies the volatility based on the options market and it has been getting higher each day, some of the highest levels experienced in months. This can be a signal as this gets excessive that the bottom is close by, but the warning is that the index can get a lot higher before it starts to come down.

At market close on Tuesday, there was still a sell-off as the DOW dropped another 478 points, a 1.14% drop, now at 41,433.48.

The S&P dropped .76% while the Nasdaq dropped .18%. It’s a little slower than for the previous days, but there still is a continuous drop that will effect or economy, kill jobs, a create higher costs. Trump believes that this will be temporary, but all indications from the people in-the-know say that this type of pain can last a long time. In just 50 days, Trump has hurt the economy as to just about push it off of a cliff and now in a free-fall. Trump believes that he has complete control of it. At the click of his fingers, he believes that the economy will be fixed, and that tariff prices will be stopped. There is nothing to explain it better than being in free-fall. For the last two weeks, especially since Trump originally initiated the 20% tariffs against Canada and Mexico, the markets have been so volatile that it’s getting hard to determine now how far it may go. The Dow slid nearly 500 points Tuesday after Trump announced and then walked back new tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, amid ongoing economic uncertainty — after closing 890 points down Monday. Canada has vowed to retaliate with tariffs of their own, and went as far as they may decide to cut electrical power off from 3 northern states if Trump continues his tariffs against Canada that receive hydro-electric power generated in Canada. As expected, Trump pulled back, now blaming his Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for all the chaos that he’s causing with announced tariffs.

In a response to reciprocal tariffs from Canada, Trump says he will more than double the tariffs from 20% to 45%. The citizens of the United States are in for a shock. If this all plays out for the worst, Tuesday will be a preview doomsday event.

I will be following the stocks pretty intently tomorrow, and report it as things happen, so there should be several updates throughout the day tomorrow.

The Stock Market Continues to Struggle – Week of March 10, 2025

March 9, 2025

Well, we now know what to expect with the stock futures starting tomorrow. Stocks will continue to fall heading towards what most economists claim will spur a recession if not turned around. But at least one person in Washington, Donald Trump, doesn’t care what happens. He is such a big loser, and has lost millions in his lifetime, he can only get numb, but he’s not broke, not like many of us regular folks, thanks to the man who what going to fix the economy.

Last week, the Dow Jones industrial Average fell 2.4% in trading. The S&P 500 index lost 3.1%, the Nasdaq composite plunged 3.45% and the small-cap Russel 2000 sold off 4.05%, both hitting five-month lows.

The futures will be down tonight going into tomorrow because the European exchanges always seem to reflect what’s going to happen in the U.S., as their markets open and close first each day. With clocks advancing 1 hour ahead as they did 2:00AM this morning, UTC is now just 5 hours ahead of CT instead of 6. Today, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that he expects 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum to go into effect as scheduled this Wednesday, prior to a slew of tariffs scheduled to be enacted on April 2.

At the moment, the Dow Jones futures are not looking good for Monday March 10th. So far, the DOW will appear to open at least down .5%, with the S&P500 futures down by .6%, with the Nasdaq 100 down by .7%. I will make a prediction prior to opening of the DOW just before the markets close in Europe in the morning.

Trump’s right hand man in crime, Elon Musk hasn’t had a great week. Two major things have happened to Musk. One of his space rockets blew up after takeoff and fell down to earth in a show that looked like a big fireworks display. The second major thing is Musk’s stock on Tesla.

The Tesla stock (TSLA) dives 10.35% to 262.67, in its seventh straight weekly loss. Ever since Musk teamed up with Trump, he has lost millions in a very short period of time. Thanks to Donald Trump and his tariffs on Canada, our northern neighbor has just slapped a 100% tariff on Tesla, so it don’t look like Musk will be selling many of his electric cars in Canada any time soon. As I have been explaining to my readers, tariffs effect the purchaser of the product being tariffed.

So Trump’s Tesla that may normally cost $50 thousand dollars now costs Canadians $100,000.

Talk about shoot themselves in the foot, this is a prime example of it Way to go Donald Trump and Elon Musk!    

THE FREE-FALL CONTINUES!!!

Trump Continues to Push Agony on Investors – More tariffs on the Way

March 8, 2025

Yesterday, I watched the stock markets intentely during the opening bell and at closing. There were millions of dollars changing hands, and the brokers seemed not to know whether to buy or to sell.

The markets seem so volatile. And yes it was. Why? Mainly because of Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Just before closing 2 nights ago, Donald Trump halted tariffs on Canada and Mexico, because I believe he finally saw the writing on the wall.

According to J.P. Morgan the following is very true…

If you know what to do in times like this, then you can survive. First, you must remain focused on ensuring your portfolio withstands uncertainties without derailing your near-term needs and long-term goals. A resilient portfolio is properly diversified and tailored to your long-term plan.

Friday at the final bell, the DOW closed at 42,801.72, which was a .52% increase in volume. That was a win. The DOW gained 222.64 points today. It opened at 42,503.07.

The stock market in general has had a pretty dismal performance in the last 3 months, but for the year, it is bearly hanging in the green with just a .61% gain from Dec 31, 2024. During the entire year of 2024, the markets were in the green at 10.53% from the previous year. So far, compared to 2024, this year is just a disaster. And it’s not even the end of the first quarter of trading for the year.

Trump finally cancelled his tarrifs on Canada and Mexico at least for a month until April 2, which was responsible for the slight gains today in the DOW. If he would stay away from taraffs and let the markets recover, the markets will stop spirling and inflation will ease.

But unfortunatey, that is not what Trump plans to do. He is an absolute sicko. When he found out that his 25% tariffs were going to tank the U.S. economy, now he has decided to go another route. His main goal seems to be to inflict “pain” on the American people.

He is ‘hell-bent’ on punishing Canada, our closest neighbor and friend. God only knows why. No other president, Democrat or Republican would be so foolish than to threaten neighboring countries with tariffs. So after just a single day of recoup of the DOW that ended in a positive note today, he has decide now to put new tariffs on Canada, now aiming a 250% on dairy products with Canada, which he claims is a reciprical tax on what Canada has been doing with exports to the U.S. regarding dairy products.

Out of the 5 trading days each week, this week there were just 2 days of uptick results but 3 days with a nose-dive in results with the DOW.

So what’s coming regarding tariffs now?

In a YouTube video, Trump again blamed the prior administration for dairy product tariffs, which he claimed under his watch during his first term. A single day doesn’t go by where he doesn’t try to justify why he initiates tariffs. If it isn’t for the country he blames, he blames Biden.

He claims because of the tariff, it is impossible to sell dairy products along with lumber into Canada. He stated that Canada has been…

“ripping us off for years on tariffs for lumber and dairy products.”

He claims that…

“Canada will be met with the exact same tariff unless they drop it. That’s what reciprical means, and we may do it as early as today or we will wait until Monday or Tuesday, but that’s what we are going to do. It’s not fair, and never has been fair. “

His reciprical tariff on Canada – 250%.

It seems that every hour Trump threatens with a new tariff, or holds back or delays. He’s now also threatening to tariff steel and aluminum imports next week.

So how are the markets going to handle that? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist on what’s about to happen. Well, the markets won’t be stable enough next week to handle Trumps latest tariff threat.   Now that Donald Trump couldn’t keep his upcoming tariff plans under a hat, the investors will have a field day with trading next week, and there will be more devestating losses throughout the week. But mark my words here. Trump is weak and is a coward. He will cave again when he sees where the markets are heading next week.

In April, there are tariffs that loom from the European Union, on autos and reciprical tariffs. Then later on this year, there will be tariffs on copper, timber, lumber and semiconductors. Not to mention the tariffs that were threatened today on dairy products from Canada. 

So there is so much uncertainty in trade policy at the moment, and the Trade Policy Uncertainty Index is going through the roof at the moment. It started to go crazy during his first term, and now again in 2025, more than ever. The markets don’t have a chance in hell to stablize and there will be no time in the near future where people can SAFELY invest in the markets. If you are a risk taker, there will be lots of risks you can take, but many more that you shouldn’t. For the normal investor if you bank your returns on the U.S. stock market from day to day, it is not a good bet to go that route.

So the downturn will continue in the markets next week. I’ll post a report on the Dow futures on Sunday Evening, and we can get a glimpse before the opening bell on Monday on how the markets will begin with trading which should be very volitile for the next week.

Trump will make concessions, like the weak man he is, that’s after people will loose millions thanks to his tariff policies. Then, he will just initiate another tariff, because he is very good at what he does best, and that is to inflick “pain” on the American people.

Again, I ask my Republican friends. What do you think now of Trump in his ability to save the economy. Friends, it’s cratering, and sooner than later we may be in recession territory. You will know when that time comes. The news folks will be talking all about it. But by then, it just may be too late.

Canada, Mexico, China, Japan, and the European Union are not waiting for Trump to change. They know that global trade must go on, with or without the United States, and they will trade without America if they have to.

Trump Posts One TRUTH ON TRUTH SOCIAL, The Rest are LIES

March 7, 2025

Here is what Donald Trump just posted today on Truth Social…

Wow..  What a statement.   If it were anyone else writing it, you would believe it. The only thing I can say is “What an ignorant S.O.B”.

Let’s pick that statement apart, shall we…

He starts with a ‘Truth’ on Truth Social. Now that’s a first. Can you believe it, Donald Trump is telling the truth. Yes, Russia is ABSOLUTELY “pounding” Ukraine on the battlefield right now”. They were today, yesterday, and every day since he was president, and even before by some 3 years or so. Ukraine is in ruins. Is he stating ANYTHING that we don’t already know? The answer is ‘NO’ but now he’s admitting it. Why because he is nothing but a failure regarding negotiating peace. He claimed the war would be over on ‘Day 1’ of his presidency. And the American people fell for it. He never once invited Ukraine to the peace table, NOT EVEN ONCE. Again, what a coward Donald Trump is.

So now he wants to consider large scale Banking Sanctions and TARIFFS on Russia. Wow, this guy is actually sick. Just because he fails miserably on pushing tariffs on Canada and Mexico, now he uses his most beloved word again, “TARIFFS”. He’s been in office for 3 months now, and he’s finally saying something on the order that he wants to PUNISH PUTIN. Can anyone believe that? I don’t. Trump is a liar and a fool. Trump IS a disgrace to America, and to Democracy.

Then to complete his statement, he says that he is “considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED.”

The end of that sentence is something that Donald Trump will burn in HELL for. He says this, indicating that they need to come together to come up with a mutual agreement. I thought that was ‘Marco Rubio’s job’ I thought it might be the Secretary of State’s job. Trump has been discouraging this ever since he gained control of government.

Where was Ukraine when Trumps delegation went to speak to Putin. The president of Ukraine was not even invited. Why? So that Putin and Trump could come up with such a concocted statement such as the one I’m discussing here. Trump never planned on sanctioning Russia.

He states “To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late. Thank you.!!!

Why would he say that even if it were his true wish? Oh my God, it’s because he knows that Russia is now taking advantage of the fact that Trump himself has decided to stop sending weapons to Ukraine so they cannot truly defend themselves. This was his tactic from the beginning. And now that he realizes that the people of the United States knows that Trump actually supports Putin, making this statement clears Trumps name. Really?

President Trump is not only a coward, but an ignorant one. He thinks we don’t know what he’s doing. He’s trying to get Ukraine to come to the table on Russia’s terms. He wants President Zelinsky to concede, give up all the land that Putin has taken from him and then call it a peace. And at the end, Trump will finally get to take FULL CREDIT for it, saying that if it weren’t for him, there never would be peace. Really !!!?    TRUMP IS AN IGNORANT AND COWARDLY MAN.

And one final note. Trump doesn’t think that people are looking at the stock market now that he’s lifed tariffs from Canada and Mexico. Well the traders on Wall Street don’t buy Trump’s lies. The market continues to fall. Right now the DOW is teatering at being at the even mark. There will be ups and downs in the market all day today which everyone knows will happen, including Trump. Noone trusts Trump. The American people have lost their faith in him and so has the world.