I truly wondered last Tuesday if he was only getting more "serious" because the market had stopped responding to his announce-a-planned-tariff-one-day-then-reverse-it-the-next strategy, so it was no longer useful, and he'd need to string them along far longer to make it work at least one more time.

He's President. There's plenty of juice to squeeze out of the markets still. He could threaten to drop a nuke on Australia, for example.

All of this ONLY after

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-sec-see-exodus-hundreds-...

Eyes wide shut as they loot.

Some potential insider antics:

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1910167321878163815