Uhmmm, okay then. Maybe you saw the "pause" coming yesterday & immediate skyrocket stock prices-- well enough ahead of our TSP cutoff, maybe even you pulled all your TSP to G & F at high-point(s) in C, S, I in recent couple of weeks & then did IFT to put it all back into C & S this Monday (?). Maybe it was "obvious" to all normal investing types... not me though, & seemingly not to many/most (vast majority even) of others. Following are some forum snippets to that point (and at the bottom is also from TSPtalk with Orange-man bragging on quantities of his huge gifts here to a couple of his very wealthy buds in the WH -- sure sounds & looks like insider-trading to most not in SCOTUS or current leadership of DOJ, SEC, FBI, etc. - to those who look at this objectively & know of the other damning evidence on this matter)...
Below is from James48843 on Monday morning this week (forum.tsptalk.com/threads/tsptalks-market-talk )
- Monday at 8:34 AM
- President Donald Trump is threatening new 50% tariffs on China unless Beijing lifts its retaliatory duties on U.S. exports by tomorrow.
- The White House says any suggestion that Trump is considering a 90-day pause in tariffs is "fake news."
- U.S. markets opened sharply lowerMonday for a third trading session, as Trump's tariffs paralyze global trade and investment.
- Asian markets plunged overnight, with stock indexes in Singapore, Australia, Japan, South Korea and India all suffering losses.
- European Union President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU is willing to negotiatewith the U.S. on tariffs but also said the bloc will prepare to retaliate.
- Billionaire Trump backer Bill Ackman says America is on the brink of an "economic nuclear winter" due to tariffs.
- DOGE chief Elon Musk and top Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro continued a war of words and tweets over free trade.
- Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one of his closest allies, at the White House Monday.
- Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick insists that tariffs will not be postponed, and will "stay in place for days and weeks."
More:
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/04/07/trump-tariffs-live-updates-stock-market-crypto.html
... Then, Tuesday about 11am he posted this...
The tariffs are not a negotiating tool. It’s a complete shift away from income tax onto tariffs instead. That’s a major change to the economy and It’s going to screw up everything.
Another day or two and it is going down again, big time.
... Then yesterday about 8am, Tom posted with this comment at the bottom (doesn't seem it was obvious to him - maybe recognized as some possibility but not obvious so as to put tons of cash accumulated towards choice equities at that moment with very strong certainty [unless one had insider information that despite every statement & action to the contrary, Mr. T would announce the Pause 2-or-3 hours later] ...
Can it get worse? Yes. Can it hold? Yes.
.... Then TSP-Talk posted this at 0911-hours yesterday on same forum page...
Positive, negative, positive, negative... it's coiling up for something bigger.
... Then suddenly at 1023 hours he posted this there..,.b
S&P up 200+ News...
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump-announces-90-day-tariff-pause-for-at-least-some-countries.html
... and 4-minutes later he followed with this news (and the stock-markets went way up from there)...
... Finally, james48843-account-talk at 1036-hrs today, James posted this (is only about 6-sec long but the "drift" is "obvious" esp. with the supporting facts, like Mr. T's posting on his Social account/site about 3-hrs before his Pause-announcement)...
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... Credits to James... & TSPtalk's posts !!
