Long overdue! But the stomping of feet and pounding of fists are going to be epic!

https://x.com/NTDNews/status/1...st-for-wood-n2187543



People are ignorant to many things but how to manage a forest for it's own health and vigor is one of them. Our lake cabin butts right up against Superior National Forest. I only have to walk in a hundred yards and it's all dead fall rotting on the forest ground choking out any new growth and just waiting for a spark. I have been removing as much as I need every year for firewood but it's pissing in the ocean.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfr...dkt_nbr=0101020x6xuy

Trump: Tariffs Strengthening 'Long Time Abused USA'

While falling international markets were feeding critics of his tariffs, President Donald Trump stood firm in his quest to "Make America Great Again!"

Asian markets plunged Monday following last week's two-day meltdown on Wall Street, and Trump said he won't back down on the sweeping new tariffs he announced Wednesday that have roiled global trade.

The president took to his social media platform early Monday morning, before Wall Street began its week.

"Oil prices are down, interest rates are down (the slow moving Fed should cut rates!), food prices are down, there is NO INFLATION, and the long time abused USA is bringing in Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries on Tariffs that are already in place," Trump posted on Truth Social. "This is despite the fact that the biggest abuser of them all, China, whose markets are crashing, just raised its Tariffs by 34%, on top of its long term ridiculously high Tariffs (Plus!), not acknowledging my warning for abusing countries not to retaliate.

"They've made enough, for decades, taking advantage of the Good OL' USA! Our past 'leaders' are to blame for allowing this, and so much else, to happen to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

Trump resumed his commentary two hours later, urging Americans to be "strong."

"The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!" Trump posted.

"Countries from all over the World are talking to us. Tough but fair parameters are being set. Spoke to the Japanese Prime Minister this morning. He is sending a top team to negotiate! They have treated the U.S. very poorly on Trade. They don’t take our cars, but we take MILLIONS of theirs. Likewise Agriculture, and many other “things.” It all has to change, but especially with CHINA!!!" Trump posted.

Trump on Sunday said his tariffs are making America "much stronger" and he isn't intentionally engineering a stock market sell-off.

"I don't want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something," Trump told reporters on Air Force One.

"We have been treated so badly by other countries because we had stupid leadership that allowed this to happen."

Also Sunday night, Trump wrote that people will discover tariffs "are a beautiful thing."

"We have massive Financial Deficits with China, the European Union, and many others. The only way this problem can be cured is with TARIFFS, which are now bringing Tens of Billions of Dollars into the U.S.A.," Trump posted on Truth Social.

"They are already in effect, and a beautiful thing to behold. The Surplus with these Countries has grown during the 'Presidency' of Sleepy Joe Biden. We are going to reverse it, and reverse it QUICKLY. Some day people will realize that Tariffs, for the United States of America, are a very beautiful thing!"

Trump on Wednesday declared a 10% baseline tax on imports from all countries and higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that run trade surpluses with the U.S.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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If the market drops 25% Monday I will load up like it’s the mother of all buying opportunities. I’ll sell blood to find money to buy. Especially in my kids brokerage accounts. When they are my age they will look back and say why didn’t you buy moar !!

Anything in particular you will load up on? Index funds, mutual funds, bonds, individual stocks. Might be a good thing to think through before Monday close of market. FYI, I agree it will be a great buying opportunity. I'm getting ready to retire and have a solid financial plan so I've been pretty much out of equities for the last few years.

I’m mostly mutual fund and ETF investor. Have a few individual stocks from back when I was trying to do that but after too much analysis paralysis I said F it and went with mostly ultra low cost index funds. very very few pros let alone individuals can beat the market and not have major concentration risk. I have friends that loaded up on Tesla and Nvidia several years ago it’s worked out well but it also could have blown up.
Mutual funds, I will log in towards end of day and see if we are up or down and decide to buy since you get end of day pricing for those. ETF trade like a stock real time and this AM a few were down 5% and now they are plus. Might be a bad day if you are shorting the market hoping for -25. As of now 10AM central it’s positive.

This is money I don’t need anytime soon and I just buy on an automated basis anyway. So buying during big dips I’m ok with. Most big fund companies ( Schwab fidelity vanguard etc) will let you buy in for very little and additional buys for as little as $1. And they keep track of all the tax info for end of year or when you do sell. My 22 year old nephew reached out to me about this. Just graduated and has a big boy job. I said it’s all about opportunity cost that $5 coffee or getting beers with the boys to watch the NCAA tournament ? That you will literally just whizz out in a few hours. That could be $5-20 in your mutual fund and worth 500$ in a few decades. Every little bit adds up. I’m not saying be a monk but just make wise choices with your dollars. Every dollar spent here is a dollar you can’t spend there. That concept takes a lot of people many years to understand. And working 60 hours a week like a dog when you’re 22 and no spouse or kids or mortgage and saving every extra dollar is much easier than when you’re 40-50+. And that $25 you bought of some mutual fund at 22 Vs buying coffee all week is now worth much, much more. If someone had laid all this out for me at 22 I’d be in a different spot. We didn’t really have free automatic online investing back then but it is what it is.

Online today:
1: Tariffs are paused, says Bloomberg
2: Bloomberg, the news service?
1: No, some guy named Walter Bloomberg
2: What’s his source?
1: Reuters
2: The news service?
2: No, his friend Johnny Reuters

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Support is around 4800 on the SP500:

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Support seems to be holding after 3 crazy days. Trump is moving so fast this isn't and orderly change to the market. He did tell the country there would be some choppiness and I can handle it. Gas is $2.49 a gallon in Texas/Oklahoma and interest rates have gone down .75% in the last few weeks. I can handle some volatility while the market re-organizes for a new world of tariffs.

SORRY......Two nobodies that will be eating crow!

“Most People Have No Idea What’s About To Happen...| Victor Davis Hanson”

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Support seems to be holding after 3 crazy days. Trump is moving so fast this isn't and orderly change to the market. He did tell the country there would be some choppiness and I can handle it. Gas is $2.49 a gallon in Texas/Oklahoma and interest rates have gone down .75% in the last few weeks. I can handle some volatility while the market re-organizes for a new world of tariffs.

Looking at the hourly chart, you can see that it did come down and bounce off the 4800 area. It may come down and test it several times.

I read in an unsolicited email that over 30% of Democrats support the idea of assassinating President Trump. I thought that could not be correct, despite the well known TDS. So I queried three different search engines: Perplexity (my favorite), Google and DuckDuckGo!

Each of them confirmed that as true!

I performed a similar search, asking whether Republicans wanted Demoratic politicians assassinated; the answer from the same three was “so low as to be indistinguishable from zero.”

I think that one third of Democrats supporting assassination to be true insanity! The fact that President Trump has taken command of the Secret Service, FBI and all of the alphabet agencies, is what is keeping him alive!

Opinions, please!

You should be careful posting stuff you get from unsolicited emails.

I still have a sizeable bond holding per rules of thumbs but I shifted a good chunk of bond holdings to equity holdings (index fund). Hopefully this will have been a good decision if the market recovers from the recent 20%-ish dip.

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SORRY......Two nobodies that will be eating crow!

"Plainly Corrupt" - I love that thumbnail title under Schifferbrains' face. Yes, Schiff is, but I am sure it wasn't intended to look like that.

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European Union floats ‘zero-for-zero’ tariff resolution to remove industrial fees on US goods: ‘Ready for a good deal’

https://nypost.com/2025/04/07/...ady-for-a-good-deal/

The European Union has floated a “zero-for-zero” tariff resolution with the Trump administration after 20% import levies were imposed by Washington last week.

“We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods as we have successfully done with many other trading partners,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Monday.

“Because Europe is always ready for a good deal. So we keep it on the table,” she said at a press conference alongside Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

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It all has to change, but especially with CHINA!!!" Trump posted.

Trump on Sunday said his tariffs are making America "much stronger" and he isn't intentionally engineering a stock market sell-off.

"I don't want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something," Trump told reporters on Air Force One.

"We have been treated so badly by other countries because we had stupid leadership that allowed this to happen."

Trump’s Tariffs Tackle Clinton’s China Carnage
By J.B. Shurk

Twenty-five years ago, President Clinton used his remaining time in office to advocate on China’s behalf. He argued that the communist regime should be admitted to the World Trade Organization and that the United States should grant the totalitarian state permanent normal trade relations. Critics of China pointed to the Tiananmen Square Massacre the decade before as ample reason to deny it any economic reward. Critics of Clinton pointed to allegations that his political campaign had accepted illicit contributions from China as ample reason to doubt the president’s motives. Still, Clinton got what he wanted, and China became a member of the WTO the very next year.

In truth, Clinton was only a loud voice representing a conglomerate of international business interests that had long desired to grow profits by tapping into China’s abundant supply of slave labor. They don’t teach that nugget of truth to the kiddies suffering through public school indoctrination. The Marxists who control the teachers’ unions and write the textbooks advance the common narrative that Clinton’s efforts to welcome China into the planet’s most lucrative trade clubs were part of a larger, well intentioned foreign policy plan to westernize China and make the communist country more like us. Would you believe that thousands of American businesses moved their operations to China over the last two-plus decades because they were eager to liberalize the communist nation, institute massive workplace regulations, utilize more expensive “green” energies, and constantly hike China’s minimum wage? Me neither.

Slave labor was always the point. Building things in a totalitarian nation that brutalizes striking workers and imprisons agitators in labor camps was always the point. Moving operations to a country that doesn’t give a fig about protecting the environment or workers’ health was always the point. The foreign policy crowd can pretend that enriching the Chinese Communist Party with global trade was some brilliant gambit to turn China into Norway, but the economic titans who pushed that public propaganda were actually looking for cheap workers with no rights. They weren’t interested in liberating a billion Chinese; they were interested in liberating themselves from expensive environmental and labor regulations in the United States. They offshored their workforces to take advantage of slavery by proxy.

Until Clinton helped to secure China’s membership in the WTO, the communist nation was on the ropes. It could barely feed its people. It had a third-world economy. Despite the United Kingdom’s handover of Hong Kong in ’97, the Chinese Communist Party remained an international pariah after its slaughter of students protesting for democracy. There was no reason to reward China’s human rights abuses by elevating it on the international stage. There was no reason to suspect that a dangerous new “Cold War” would develop between a wealthy United States and an impoverished China unless the former offered the latter normalized trade relations. Had Clinton and his Western allies maintained economic pressure on China, it is likely that there would be no Chinese Communist Party today. It would be buried in an unmarked grave alongside Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union — which would have been fitting, since each totalitarian system murdered and disposed of millions the same way.

Instead, the Chinese Communist Party has grown only more powerful over the last twenty-five years. China has become the planet’s premier manufacturing hub. Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum globalists are so envious of China’s technocratic surveillance that they regularly promote programs meant to remake the West in China’s image. Warren Buffett’s right-hand man, the now-deceased Charlie Munger, was a huge fan of the way Chinese communists controlled their economy.

The U.S. trade deficit with China was around five billion dollars in the mid-’80s. It has spiked to nearly four hundred billion dollars today! Excluding services and energy, mining, and agricultural products, the U.S. is running a manufacturing deficit of roughly half a trillion dollars with China every year. Since Clinton and the foreign policy gurus opened America’s doors to Chinese goods, the United States has outsourced most of its manufacturing to its chief geopolitical adversary.

Now, that’s a brilliant foreign policy! Three decades ago, China’s economy was fragile, and its future was uncertain. And though many economists would argue that China’s economy is still fragile today (centrally controlled communist systems always are), the Chinese Communist Party has never been more powerful. It has the largest military in the world, is expanding its naval and hybrid warfare capabilities at an exponential pace, and is becoming a real threat to American military supremacy.

The China trade enthusiasts told us that offshoring American manufacturing jobs to the other side of the world would prevent a future devastating conflict with China and transform the communist regime into friendly business partners who would grow to appreciate the benefits of freedom and democracy. Instead, U.S. politicians and business leaders destroyed America’s industrial and manufacturing self-sufficiency while transferring trillions of dollars of wealth to China’s military.

Well done, “expert” class! What will you think of next — maybe fund reckless bioweapon experiments in a leaky Chinese laboratory? D’oh! — the “best and brightest” already have.

https://www.americanthinker.co...s_china_carnage.html

In support of the current admin, I decided to get my bridge fund started with TSLA stock. It should pay off nicely in a few months once the Trump tariffs and subsequent negotiations finish.

Me too. I'm in at $222. Also bought some Enterprise Products (EPD) a 7% dividend play in oil services @ 29.50. MAGA!

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Also bought some Enterprise Products (EPD) a 7% dividend play in oil services @ 29.50. MAGA!

Another good dividend play: Alliance Resource LP (ARLP) Annual Dividend & Yield 2.80 (11.18%)

I really thought this was a thread about trump.
Not about all of your portfolios.
The amount of stock advice in here is getting wild.