Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

The world's biggest communist party, and in my view the best.

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The economy didn’t tank Biden - Biden tanked Biden and because Harris’ policies were Bidens policies, she tanked too. The economy under Biden was improving month on month- unfortunately it didn’t trickle down to enough pockets for Americans to see that - and also because MAGA is simply believed which is probably more extraordinary than any failings Biden had, which were more than a few in fairness

No CEO will be making plans for 5-10 years down the line right now, everyone is cashing up and pulling back on big projects which is what we are seeing in the markets because nobody knows what will happen tomorrow let alone 5 years from now. Companies demand certainty and trust to make large plans like that and right now there is zero of either.

Why would they leave the global economy with growing demand and decamp entirely to the insular economy of Trumpistan?

I am looking around the house and I see nothing made in USA except android in the phone and windows in the laptop. Probably more than half I have made in China though.

Market open should be interesting today.

My pension fund is 95% equities and it got hammered but that’s par for the course, I have 35 years for it to rebound.

Stepping in to manipulate the stock market will absolutely calm the stock markets fears of uncertainty…..

Currently work for US pharma MNC. As of yet, no one's too worried about our jobs heading back to the States.

The scale of investment to get a fraction of our production back to the States, the volume of regulation to be overcome and the loss of goodwill ( and sales) worldwide would set them back a decade.

If we're anything to go by, most companies have been exploring other potential markets and will expand there at a faster rate the previously planned.The US are an important market, but that's reducing annually and they won't have the clout they currently have to bully companies to invest there.

I think the world should follow the Canadian example. Stop buying from them. Let them sweat that one out for a while.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/european-union-approves-first-set-of-retaliatory-tariffs-on-us-imports.html - Europe about to fire back

Forget about all the other stuff for a minute. It's important, but this is the thing what will thrash our economy in an instant.

The only positive is he's introduced the bulk of other tariffs beforehand and it's clear to everyone that we have a mad king situation, so companies will be less likely to react and more inclined to wait and see how it plays out.