r/wallstreetbets • u/s1n0d3utscht3k • Mar 03 '25

News Trump Officially Signs 20% Tariffs on China

https://www.barrons.com/news/trump-signs-order-for-20-tariff-on-china-w-house-d6fec57f
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u/sportspadawan13 Mar 04 '25

Just amazing that we had an economy that was cruising along mostly fine, slowly fixing inflation, with stocks and crypto all climbing, and 77 million voted to just blow that up cause of gays or something.

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u/cahir11 Mar 04 '25

and 77 million voted to just blow that up cause of gays or something

Not even gays. They saw a facebook post from Aunt Becky saying that a women's field hockey team in rural Utah had a trans player on the bench, and this was enough to make them throw the whole country out the window.

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u/TheHolyWaffleGod Mar 04 '25

The amount of people who’ll vote against their best interests just because of blind hate is comical

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u/anonymous9828 Mar 04 '25

slowly fixing inflation

I think the problem was that "fixing inflation" only meant slowing the rate of price increases

prices at the grocery store were still 10-20% higher than they were a few years back and voters decided to punish the ruling party for it

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u/DJAnarchie Mar 04 '25

That's the side effects of money printer. As opposed to slowing, it's pedal to the metal now.