The S&P 500 retreated on Monday, extending February’s rout and turning red for the year after President Donald Trump’s confirmation of forthcoming tariffs ratcheted up economic concerns.
The S&P 500 fell 2.1%, bringing its year-to-date performance to a loss of nearly 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 789 points, or 1.8%. The Nasdaq Composite slid 3%, weighed down by Nvidia’s decline of more than 9%.
All three indexes traded higher earlier in the session, with the Dow at one point up nearly 200 points. Stocks took a notable leg down in afternoon trading following Trump’s reiteration that 25% levies on imports from Mexico and Canada would go into effect on Tuesday, dashing investors’ hopes of a last-minute deal to avert the full tariffs on the two U.S. allies.
He’s doing this on purpose so the oligarchs can buy the dip and own even more.
Don’t mistake malice for incompetence, or vice versa. Trump is often incompetent, especially in live interactions, his tariff game ain’t it, it’s part of all he’s there for: self-enrichment.
He already called them on and back off once this term to do just that. Calling such moves idiocy instead of a plan to further drain wealth from the many to the pre-informed few plays right into it.
Yet another example of why the capital markets are the bane of human civilization in innumerable ways, undermining and sabotaging entire societies to accelerate short term growth/metastasis.
The capital markets will be destroyed either by the people out of self preservation, or by capital market made climate change after it doesn’t matter anymore for humans. I take solace in knowing this con game won’t last another century either way, as the tumor of unchecked human greed will destroy its own host if not cut out by force.
Oh, it’s much worse than that.
All that park land sold to the wealthy.
USD becomes worthless.
Network states - city states of the rich.
Destroying the central banking system (not bad, but in this context will cause untold death and suffering)
Privatized everything.
Crypto.
The complete dismantling of american hegemony (not a bad thing, necessarily, but to do it by placating Putin is not the way) and financial dominance.
Complete and absolute surveillance. Always. In everything. (X app/starlink)
Christian dominionism. Not just nationalism.
The end of western society.
It’s much worse than just markets.
It’s Armageddon.