After stock markets plummeted in response to Donald Trump’s announcement of widespread tariffs, he suddenly announced a 90-day pause on the new policy. Capital will resist any measure that threatens profits — and that’s just what happened yesterday.

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    1 month ago

    Dude literally pointed to his friends who made a killing on it, and posted “buy” info on his socials before reversing.

    If we had any kind of system of laws, that’d be jail time.

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        1 month ago

        I think even UK common law has something to say about that, some kind of Magna Carta? We regressed right back to pre-constitutional monarchy, do not pass go.