Note: There is no logical reason that anyone can actually figure out why Trump is doing what he is doing and has done. That China is a business Adversary is a real thing. However, WHY harm the world economy by driving down the stock markets everywhere?
Since nothing has been accomplished really people are starting to accuse Trump of Manipulating the Stock market for insider Trading by his billionaire Cronies to make a financial killing on all stock markets on earth.
How do you do this?
You find a way to drive the stock markets down as far as you can get away with. this causes middle class and lower 401 k investors in the U.S. and around the world to sell their stocks so they might be able to actually retire one day and not be financially ruined (just has Trump has ruined them if they sold because they were afraid the last couple of weeks). Then your billionaire cronies who are just waiting with cash to buy all these stocks from middle class and poorer investors buy these stocks at much lower prices because of the drop in the stock market. As the market starts to return to normal these billionaire investors then make millions and sometimes billions of dollars doing this worldwide.
All Trump would have to say to his cronies is: "The bottom has been reached" and so they would invest at that point and then ride the stock markets up worldwide.
For example if you were a 401 k person saving for retirement and you got scared your retirement savings would be wiped out after a 20% plus drop in the market you decided to sell to at least have your money in Cash and not lose anymore to the drop.
If you lived in California any financial gains on your stocks since you purchased them would then be taxed at a rate of 20% Federal Capital Gains taxes and 10% California Capital gains taxes. So, if you were scared and sold you are already down 30% of the value of anything you gained since you invested your money in stocks (on top of whatever you lost in the market drop which was over 20% at it's worst.
So, imagine you have been storing money for retirement the last 35 or 40 years since you started working and you just lost 30% of your gains to Capital gains taxes in California and Federal combined. Then you lost another 20% plus of the value of your stocks before you were so scared you sold those stocks. So, now you are down 50% of your values before Trump.
So, for California investors in the stock market who just sold out of fear are often down 50% total in any gains to the value of their stocks that they just sold in relation to how much they invested in the first place.
So, if you had 1 million dollars in Value before Trump you basically have 500,000 dollars left now in Cash to retire on. And if you don't pay the 30% federal and state capital gains tax you go to jail.
This is what Trump has done to people all over the world. Every country likely has something like a 401 k and they all got screwed the last few weeks by Trump.
It might have been better if Trump simply took a pistol and blew all these millions of people away worldwide rather than to put them through this after losing 50% of their retirement investments in this way.
begin quote: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5360062/why-some-are-accusing-trump-of-manipulating-stock-markets
Why some are accusing Trump of manipulating stock markets
A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Wall Street has been whipsawed for more than a week by President Trump's every word about tariffs. Now he's facing accusations of using his power to deliberately manipulate the markets.
The scrutiny started with a tale of two social-media posts. On Wednesday, shortly after the U.S. stock market opened, Trump posted on his Truth Social network in all caps: "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!"
Less than four hours after his post, Trump said on Truth Social that he would pause the harshest of his tariffs on most countries.
Stocks immediately skyrocketed in relief, with the Dow closing up almost 3,000 points — meaning that any investors who had followed Trump's advice in the morning and bought into the stock market right away would have made quite a bit of money by the end of the day.
Prior to his post, share prices had been plummeting for days, as fears mounted about the economic damage Trump's new trade policies could cause. Powerful investors and billionaire business leaders had increasingly gone public airing their worries about the new tariffs, and the resulting financial panic.
By Wednesday afternoon, Trump seemed to hear them when he hit pause.
Now some Democratic lawmakers and government ethics experts are calling for investigations into whether Trump was attempting to deliberately manipulate the markets, or to enable others to trade on insider information.
Sens. Adam Schiff, Democrat from California, and Ruben Gallego, Democrat from Arizona, sent a letter to the White House on Wednesday, requesting "an urgent inquiry into whether President Trump, his family, or other members of the administration engaged in insider trading or other illegal financial transactions, informed by advanced knowledge" of his tariff policy changes.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Democrat from Massachusetts, also called for an investigation, asking on the floor of Congress if this was "corruption in plain sight."
White House spokesperson Kush Desai accused Democrats of "playing partisan games," and tells NPR that Trump's early-morning post was merely meant to calm investors' fears.
""It is the responsibility of the President of the United States to reassure the markets and Americans about their economic security," he wrote in an emailed statement.
George W. Bush's former chief ethics lawyer says such statements would have led to firing
But the criticisms of Trump's two Truth Social posts aren't just limited to his partisan opponents.
"We can't have senior public officials — including the president – talking about stock prices and where to buy or to sell at the same time as they are making and announcing decisions that have a dramatic impact on stock prices," says Richard Painter, a law professor at the University of Minnesota, who previously served as the chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush.
If anyone in the Bush administration had made similar public statements urging people to buy or sell stocks, Painter added, "that person probably would [have been] fired."
Painter did not accuse President Trump of market manipulation: "We don't have clear evidence of that here," he tells NPR.
But he pointed out that the president already has a track record of pushing the boundaries, at the very least.
"Financial conflicts of interests for President Trump have been a concern since he was first elected in 2016," Painter says, adding that the problems today are even greater.
Trump's embrace of the crypto industry, for example, has drawn ongoing scrutiny: The president, who has a growing personal portfolio of cryptocurrency-related businesses, has appointed pro-crypto Cabinet officials and promised the industry much friendlier regulation.
It's up to the SEC to investigate accusations of insider trading
Despite the wide-ranging calls for investigations into Trump's social-media posts on Wednesday, Painter and others aren't expecting to see much happen.
The Republican lawmakers who control both the House and Senate have shown little interest in picking fights with Trump. Nor do ethics experts expect much movement from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which investigates accusations of insider trading.
On Wednesday, the Senate voted to confirm Trump nominee Paul Atkins to lead the SEC. And Trump in February signed an executive order claiming more power over independent regulatory agencies, including the SEC.
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