US Stocks, Dollar Slide — Trump Again Calls for Rate Cuts

If he keeps it up the US can become one of those countries where a loaf of bread costs $500.

When can we expect inflation to hit 9% like it did with Bidenomics?

Inflation is down

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I suspect “stagflation” is a much bigger threat, and a more likely one. Trump and company have set a world record in throttling a robust and growing economy, and shrinking inflation into something nearly the opposite. And in only 90 days.

The rest of the world is doing a collective head scratching/WTF. Now we, and they sit holding the collective breaths waiting another 80 days for Trump to drop the other stinky shoe.

Doesn’t a falling dollar implicitly make our exported goods more affordable to importing countries?

I guess in some scenarios that might be a positive, but most of the thinking I’m seeing in the trade war era says otherwise. Indicates a loss of confidence. Probably well-founded.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/21/us-dollar-falls-to-three-year-low-as-trumps-powell-threats-further-dent-investor-confidence.html

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Let him devalue the dollar enough and piss off the rest of the world. Then invest in Vaseline or KY.

You are so worried about what everyone thinks of you. I don’t care what they think. They just see us a pocket book.

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As it should be - tariffs are a tax

It’s the money printing that’s inflationary. But both tariffs and money printing are idiotic

Do you know what else is a tax? Taxes.

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