Subj : Re: Is AI ruining social
To   : DR. WHAT
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Mon Apr 14 2025 02:04:00

RM> A new story today said that Trump is telling people to buy or sell
RM> stocks just before he announces a tariff (or postpones one) so the rich
RM> can make money from the bouncing markets..

DW>That smells like just propaganda from the media.  Was that CNN or MSDNC?

That was on our national news but Mike Powel my Sysop on this BBS
also heard al about it down there.

DW>Stocks are not short term investments.  Anyone panicing and selling shouldn't
  >be playing the stock market.

Depends who you are.. For years I was a Day Trader with my own funds.
At times I would buy and sell the same stock as many as 3 times in one
day as the value fluctuated. If you're good at that you can make
more money in one day on a stcok than you would just holding it
for a year. But when people asked what I do for a living I used to
tell them I was a professional gambler because that's what it is.
You guess right and make a lot of money, you guess wrong and you lose.

RM> Too many rich, powerful people are losing money

DW>Which was part of the plan.  Those rich are usually Elitists who do nothing.

I don't think Trumps plan was to eliminate rich people..

RM> I couldn't quickly find current figures for the USA but in that search
RM> what came up was the estimate that, if the tarrifs currently on hold
RM> come through and stay, it will cost the USA over 2 million jobs.

DW>Propaganda again.

Estimates from numerous sources, but of course the worst case estimates
are the ones that make the news. That all remains to be seen but I
have a feeling things are not going to go anything like Trump hopes
and expects them to. He won't be in power for enough years to pull
you out of a borderline recession as he tries to take on the world.

RM> There's already been a car plant in Canada and one in Mexico and
RM> one in the USA that have shut down 'temporarily' while they try to
RM> sort out how to survive the automotive tariffs.

DW>Well, Canada can do what many other countries have done: negotiate and get th
  >tariffs dropped.

Right.. he's offered us 2 ways out of it. To either move all our
car plants to the USA, and lose 125,000 direct jobs and many times
that support jobs, or join the USA as the 51st state..

DW>Maybe if you guys elected a useful PM, like Pierre (sorry, can't spell his la
  >name) things will get better.

I'm not sure why Pierre Poilierve would be of much use. Mostly he is
more like Trump than the others. They say he will turn Canada into
the USA in all but name, cutting services, cutting health care and
making the gov't smaller and almost impossible to deal with if you
have a problem and cut taxes for the rich..

That said, Mark Carney is a banker and will cause problems of his
own. He is still ahead for the past 4 or 5 weeks, but only by
about 5% now. I've said in the past that what would be best is
for a Minority Gov't to be elected. Without the power to do much
unless another party backs them up, that tends to mitigate the
amount of damage they can do..

That said, Carney's small 5% lead is like the Polular vote, and
a lot of huge areas virtually always vote liberal so the number
of districts the Liberals will win are very likely to be a lot
better than just 5% higher.. But I never believe the predictions
until after the votes are in..   B)

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