r/wallstreetbets • u/Force_Hammer • 1d ago

News Powell sees tariffs raising inflation and says Fed will wait before further rate moves

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/powell-sees-tariffs-raising-inflation-and-says-fed-will-wait-before-further-rate-moves.html
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u/Call555JackChop 1d ago

3am Truth Social rant inbound

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u/Cream314Fan 1d ago

3AM? You mean 3PM? Market is bleeding out and Jerome said we’ll wait and see xddd

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u/Lolkac 1d ago

Trump is playing golf right now, he has no idea what is happening on the wall street.

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u/Xander707 1d ago

He also just doesn’t care. At all. While it burns down he’s just going to keep saying “things are going really well” and “there may be some bumps in the road but we are perfectly ok with that.”

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u/NotawoodpeckerOwner 1d ago

Plus he's already made a boat loads off those two shitcoin rugpulls and had every legal issue taken care of. He's loving life right now.

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u/Derpy_Diva_ 22h ago

Right? Guys exactly where he wants to be. Imagine having the best day of your life (excused of all crimes, getting richer by the day, and lines of people paying 1m+ a pop to talk to you) every day and then you realize exactly how disconnected he actually is. His best day is at the expense of everyone else’s but he’ll never know because of his happy best day ever bubble. It’s sickening.

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u/lousy_at_handles 19h ago

He's gonna start extorting companies to get line-item tariff exemptions.

"Hey Ford, looks like you're having a hard time. I tell you what, for just 15% of your outstanding stock I'll give you guys a special exemption."

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u/rangecontrol 17h ago

extorting companies inside the u.s. and countries outside the u.s.; like an extortion double dildo, fucking both sides.

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u/Conscious_Joke_2464 14h ago

Also, this part

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u/Fatso_Wombat 21h ago

Every country has the government it deserves. -some old French guy

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u/OneEquivalent5236 18h ago

Time for a round of golf!

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u/Trick_Helicopter_834 15h ago

In the mean time his brain is letting him down a little more each day. Some days he can’t even finish a sentence.

The minions used AI to estimate “tariffs” from balance of trade data, but had to lie to him about it. Otherwise he would have been ever less coherent explaining them.

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u/Neat_Egg_2474 22h ago

Not to mention every company and country paying him directly to help loophole their tariffs. He is making bank off of this while selling out the country.

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u/Hacking_the_Gibson 14h ago

At this point, fine. Whatever it takes to get things back going the right direction. We can handle the other stuff when the five alarm fire is out.

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u/sjs72 1d ago

You forgot “joe biden did it”

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u/bitterbrew 22h ago

he could never say so few words. It'll be "WE INHERITED THE WORST ENCOMY, PEOPLE ARE SAYING OF ALL TIME, THE MARKET WAS ON FIRE BECAUSE OF SLEEPY JOEBAMA..."

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u/DJStrongArm 18h ago

Trump’s second mess is making Biden’s cleanup of the first one look a lot better in hindsight

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u/davehoff94 23h ago

A big part of why he's able to try whatever he wants and fuck around without caring about the consequences is because he knows that this won't affect him. He's 80 and on the final years of his life. Even if the American empire declines, he won't live to see it.

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u/Sunny1-5 23h ago

And cannot be worried with running for re-election. He knows he’s got this first half of his first term to get a lot of “work” done. After mid terms, we just grind hopelessly into the next election.

Imagine if all of your legal, financial, and career decisions could just happen in 2 years, then you get 2 years to fuck around. Rinse, repeat.

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u/Beelzebufo7 12h ago

He's not intending to leave after 4 years. He may be forced to leave... but he's not planning on retiring anywhere other than MAL, when it becomes the new capital.

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u/faxanaduu 22h ago

He also knows nobody will stop him or hold him accountable. House, senate, NOBODY. Unchecked power is essentially what he has, and he has absolutely nothing to lose. This has been his dream his entire life. And it was so obvious to everyone except the exceptionally stupid people that handed this to him TWICE. The US deserves this. History books will have a chapter on this time period when we fell from superpower status. I didn't think it would happen so fast and in this way. I was naive, I didn't realize how stupid people had become in the past 20 years.

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u/DataCassette 23h ago

Hopefully the devil lifts him out of the boiling piss cauldron for a good look once in a while.

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u/BeardofZeus27 22h ago

so what youre saying is, hes purposefully destroying the country because hes 80....or maybe is he trying to set us up for future prosperity considering this country was trillions in debt and headed towards actual financial destruction? take the blows now so youre not dead later.

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u/Few-Frosting-4213 21h ago

Given his long record of screwing over business partners, draft dodging, running pump and dumps, you think he's trying to leave a better world behind...

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u/BeardofZeus27 20h ago

yes yes the multimillionaire/billionaire became president just to fuck us. you got it.

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u/davehoff94 16h ago

I don't think he's purposefully trying to destroy it. He is actually a regard and probably thinks that this will work. He also knows if it doesn't work then it doesn't affect him.

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u/SpezialEducation 21h ago

No he cares, he wants this to happen so he can wipe his debt away on the cheap. Whilst also charging the taxpayers millions for golf at his own resorts.

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u/koshgeo 19h ago

"We'll see what happens." He loves saying that.

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u/Mercuryshottoo 18h ago

He plays golf because he doesn't know how to play the fiddle

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u/Cryptocaned 23h ago

"It's all part of the process" lol.

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u/corys00 23h ago

America going full Philadelphia 76ers “Trust the Process” on everyone.

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u/AW316 23h ago

And didn’t that turn out well

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u/Downtown_Skill 22h ago

Zapp Brannigan ass president 

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u/mrthagens 21h ago

“Elon musk? I never knew him”

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u/Blubasur 18h ago

Who’s “we” here trumpet?

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u/Xander707 18h ago

Him, Elon, and the sycophants they surround themselves with, obviously.

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u/WhoAreWeEven 15h ago

Dude did crypto rug pull lol Why would he care about Wall St

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u/HeidiwF1 14h ago

Burns all the way down. This isn't the floor yet. Powell's not going to bail him out.

People and relatives of the people laid off from Worldpool, etc when companies left for Mexico, India, etc support the tariffs and want the companies to feel the pain of the tariffs for what they did. They won't. The consumers will. Companies left the country because of the high salaries and benefits packages.

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u/Zocalo_Photo 11h ago

“We’re going to have so much money like you wouldn’t believe!”