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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Trump using Twitter economic announcements to manipulate the stock market and make
millions for his friends and family?
Every wild swing in stocks over the past few weeks has been caused this way.
Tariffs on steels and aluminum! Stocks tank.
Well, just China. 12th on the importer list. Stocks soar!
Huge new tariffs on China goods of all kinds. Stocks tank.
No worries, opening talks with China on trade in general, tariffs negotiable. Stocks soar!
Am I crazy to accuse a known mobster of using a once respected Bully Pulpit for profit?
I think not!
PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)do this shit every day.
Most Stock Message Boards are rampant with this garbage.
Girard442
(6,086 posts)Headline:
Carl Icahn denies knowing about steel tariffs before stock sale
https://www.axios.com/carl-icahn-responds-to-trump-trade-allergations-1520442519-62efca63-c78a-44b5-83a9-d7f6ad7f969a.html
modrepub
(3,503 posts)..they can also loose their shirt. Don't think much about it since I buy and hold at this stage of my life. I can't help but remember that historically large swings in the Stock Market are often harbingers of recessions/depressions.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Stocks rally.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Progressive dog
(6,921 posts)now the trick is to find who (besides Putin) has control of the puppet's strings. Trump was only recently toilet trained and that's sill his biggest ever intellectual achievement.