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Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries by bilbo0s on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @09:47PM (#43639848)
Hmm.

The problem is that China holds only 2.6% of US Debt as of February 2025. Can they leverage that small a percentage to make a market move like that? Especially assuming they didn't dedicate all of their holdings to that action?

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Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries by ajross on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @09:54PM (#43639893)
It depends entirely on what the trading volume is, and I don't know. But again IMHO it's critically important that someone find out.
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Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries by intended on Thursday April 10, 2025 @01:31AM (#43640946)
You know what the answer is. It’s the global system dumping US debt. Its not like someone knew THIS would be the specific smoke signal that Trump would see and say “oh, lets pump the brakes”
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Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries by scotty79 on Thursday April 10, 2025 @03:47PM (#43647422)
Reversing idiotic decisions after not being able to explain away the backlash they caused is kind of his thing and many people recognized it and expected it before the tariff pause.
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