I'm pretty confident it's a stunt to crash markets so the wealthy can buy up assets for cheap and then the tariffs will disappear, driving values up again. 

This is not the way to implement tariffs effectively.

The markets will speak for themselves tomorrow morning.

IDK if there's anything interesting to say. It's just a massive tax increase. We might move on the Laffer curve to a point where the government collects less in taxes b/c the tax burden is too high. I did see this interesting point by Rajiv Sethi that foreign students paying tuition is technically an export of services that was not factored in to the trade deficit calculations:

IDK if there's anything interesting to say. It's just a massive tax increase. We might move on the Laffer curve to a point where the government collects less in taxes b/c the tax burden is too high. I did see this interesting point by Rajiv Sethi that foreign students paying tuition is technically an export of services that was not factored in to the trade deficit calculations: https://bsky.app/profile/rajivsethi.bsky.social/post/3lluv7tv2x22c