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Market Futures Look Terrible This Morning... March 10, 2025

The goal appears to be to wind the clock back to 1990’s with the tariffs. Too bad the tax rates aren’t being moved back there as well.
Another economist thinks the tariffs are there to pay for the tax cuts as well. Strange all of the sacrificing is coming from the lower classes.
While the party continues at the Southern White House.
 
Yep, sure looks like it’s going to be a rough day.

I’m waiting for the bottom to fall out, I doubt this is it. I have told myself I will slowly start buying back in somewhere around 35-40k DJIA. And even then I think it may go down a bit more, but if I’m wrong at least I got to take some profits and buy back in at a discount.
 
I read that Trump is trying to fire all the people who deal with economic data that allows us to calculate GDP and jobs. I can't emphasize enough how bad an idea this is.
The market will love that... Trump has unwittingly strengthened other countries and weakened the United States. Yet his followers:

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...s-two-expert-panels-economic-data-2025-03-05/

The email read in part "the Secretary of Commerce has determined that the purposes for which FESAC was established has been fulfilled and the committee has been terminated, effective February 28 2025." The second group - the Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory Committee, which consulted on a separate group of economic data - was also terminated.
"This will impact the quality of data because it's a core principle of federal statistical agencies that they continually improve and innovate," Erica Groshen, a former FESAC member, told Reuters. "Without a robust flow of information and advice between experts outside their agencies, it's going to be harder for them to do that."

Groshen, who is also a former Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner, said FESAC was made up of academics, private-sector economists and data scientists, and focused on continually improving economic data produced by the BLS as well as the Commerce Department's statistical agencies, the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The committees had been in place for at least two decades.

The committees had been in place for at least two decades.

The Commerce Department and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday evening.
 
Looks like a sheet show on the way
DJIA - 460
NASDAQ - 313
S&P 500 - 75

Fingers crossed it changes...



The Next President Inherits a Remarkable Economy
The high quality of recent economic growth should put a wind at the back of the White House’s next occupant

Whoever wins the White House next week will take office with no shortage of challenges, but at least one huge asset: an economy that is putting its peers to shame.

With another solid performance in the third quarter, the U.S. has grown 2.7% over the past year. It is outrunning every other major developed economy, not to mention its own historical growth rate.

More impressive than the rate of growth is its quality. This growth didn’t come solely from using up finite supplies of labor and other resources, which could fuel inflation. Instead, it came from making people and businesses more productive.
 
Another economist thinks the tariffs are there to pay for the tax cuts as well.

What "economist"?
Tariffs are a very small source of government income compared to income (and other) taxes.

If we want to "make up" lost income tax revenues with tariffs, we will need at least 50%+ tariffs on all imports. Maybe even 100%.
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...s-two-expert-panels-economic-data-2025-03-05/

The email read in part "the Secretary of Commerce has determined that the purposes for which FESAC was established has been fulfilled and the committee has been terminated, effective February 28 2025." The second group - the Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory Committee, which consulted on a separate group of economic data - was also terminated.
"This will impact the quality of data because it's a core principle of federal statistical agencies that they continually improve and innovate," Erica Groshen, a former FESAC member, told Reuters. "Without a robust flow of information and advice between experts outside their agencies, it's going to be harder for them to do that."

Groshen, who is also a former Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner, said FESAC was made up of academics, private-sector economists and data scientists, and focused on continually improving economic data produced by the BLS as well as the Commerce Department's statistical agencies, the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The committees had been in place for at least two decades.

The committees had been in place for at least two decades.

The Commerce Department and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday evening.
Thank you.
 

Canada will keep in place its retaliatory tariffs against US-made products as long as President Donald Trump persists with a trade war, said Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister-designate.

“The Canadian government is rightly retaliating with our own tariffs,” Carney said during his victory speech Sunday. “My government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect — and make credible, reliable commitments to free and fair trade.”


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Tuesday could very well be worse than Monday unless the WH hints about "Trump reconsidering".

Imagine all these financial advisers with their nervous/terrified clients calling non stop?

Thanks, Trump, you stupid mofo.
 
Tuesday could very well be worse than Monday unless the WH hints about "Trump reconsidering".

Imagine all these financial advisers with their nervous/terrified clients calling non stop?

Thanks, Trump, you stupid mofo.

Trump "reconsidering" will have minimal effect.
The markets are now reacting to the uncertainty and chaos.

Literally, the ONLY fix is Republicans having a backbone and standing up to him; giving him an ultimatum against all the chaos.

Markets would VERY likely bump up if they started taking actions to remove him from office.
 
I read that Trump is trying to fire all the people who deal with economic data that allows us to calculate GDP and jobs. I can't emphasize enough how bad an idea this is.
Trump just might be dumb enough to think that will work. For the one millionth time, markets like predictability. The market will see through the lies…or do they forget that a bunch of the raw data is publicly available or comes from third party sources in the first place.

Trump cannot control the message on the economy anymore than Biden could.
 
I read that Trump is trying to fire all the people who deal with economic data that allows us to calculate GDP and jobs. I can't emphasize enough how bad an idea this is.

I’m sure whoever the poster was they looooved to post ZeroHedge has concerns with that
 
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