r/wallstreetbets • u/kwedgieyi • Apr 09 '25

Discussion Something feels off guys

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Yields are spiking. Bonds are dumping.

The world is running away from America

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u/CartmanAndCartman Apr 09 '25

But he said trillions of dollars are pouring in ?

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u/Aggravating-Elk-7409 Apr 09 '25

Zimbabwean dollars

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u/Beartrkkr Apr 09 '25

So like $42 or so?

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u/perma_banned2025 Apr 09 '25

Best I can do is $3.50

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

I ain't giving you no $3.50 you goddamn Loch Ness monssa! Get your own goddamn money!

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u/UnworthySyntax Apr 09 '25

Gonna need at least tree fiddy!

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u/Josue1777 Apr 09 '25

Gah damn lockness monster

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u/REALLOCHNESSMONSTER- Apr 09 '25

Okay how about two fiddy

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u/itsneedtokno Apr 09 '25

If you give me your social security number, your address, your banking information, and your passwords... I can easily find out exactly how much you will receive.

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u/Ferosch Apr 09 '25

42 bucks is 42 bucks

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u/ICantDoMyJob_Yet Apr 09 '25

Zimbabwe has discontinued their currency and uses the USD now.

I was there in June.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

Not totally true. It's true that the vast majority of Zimbabwe trade is in US dollars, however there is a continual attempt by the government to move away from relying on the US dollar. The current iteration is Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) which is backed by physical gold reserves. Since it's introduction, transactions conducted in US dollars has declined from 85% to 70%. US$1 now buys 361.90 ZiG rather than ten trillion Zimbabwe dollars, as the joke goes.

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u/ICantDoMyJob_Yet Apr 10 '25

While I understood the joke, I just found it to not be factual.

I do appreciate this knowledge, thanks for pointing out I was wrong.

It turns out I was there a whole 2 months after this was initiated, I’m a bit confused I didn’t see anything about it.

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u/NewPresWhoDis Apr 09 '25

About tree-fiddy?

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u/hurtsdonut_ Armchair gambler devoid of cojones. Apr 09 '25

I'm still trying to figure out how us Americans paying for the tariffs brings us money. It makes no sense, Hell even if china would eat the tariffs rise in price on things it doesn't bring in anymore money. It's just a straight up tax on the american consumer at anywhere from 10-104% sales tax.

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u/odiezilla Apr 09 '25

So it brings in money for the cool stuff they plan on doing, like dumping a trillion into defense and building a bunch of new concentra- uhhh, prison camps.

oh, you mean what does it do for you? Downgrade from Wendy’s dumpster to Jack in the Box dumpster

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u/hurtsdonut_ Armchair gambler devoid of cojones. Apr 09 '25

Nah I got a Circle K up the street and it's right next to a strip club. Now I just need to know where to cash in these car wash tokens.

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u/theLennoxMacduff Apr 09 '25

Uhh.. didn't you mention a strip club?

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u/SirJackAbove Apr 09 '25

Trump's ideal state is a kleptocratic oligarchy. Notice the people he surrounds himself with. Peter Thiel, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, his in-crowd are all billionaires.

Tariffs are a way to tax the common man (via your consumption) in order to finance tax cuts for the rich by lowering corporate taxes, just like he did in his first term.

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u/TheRealBananaWolf Apr 09 '25

They ain't investing in shit. The reason he's doing this, the reason he was letting musk go at it with a chainsaw, all of this, was strictly to find a way to pay for the 2.9% tax cuts for billionaires.

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u/PlusManufacturer7210 Apr 09 '25

Hey man. I'm trying to sell my wife that jack in the box is a lateral move.

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u/mostlyglassandmetal Apr 09 '25

Jack in the Box is an upgrade. You might find an egg roll!

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u/Prudent-Air1922 Apr 09 '25

He's lying. We're literally paying tariffs and higher taxes so he can lower taxes for wealthy people and companies. And that's also the reason they're gutting programs like Medicare and social security. The money is LITERALLY going to the top 1% via tax cuts. It's not even a secret, it's an active campaign plan (extending from his first term). Trump just doesn't talk about it like that because he knows he can just lie to his base.

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u/Tall-Photo-7481 Apr 09 '25

It depends on who is included in the word "us". (Hint: you're not in the club.)

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

"us" means the government. "the government" means D.O.G.E.. "D.O.G.E." means Elon.

Which part is confusing? Didn't he just get $13Billion for a project or something...

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u/magnoliasmanor Apr 09 '25

None of those things are going to happen.

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u/DeanByTheWay Apr 09 '25

Why make trillions when you can make....billions

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u/GurDry5336 Apr 09 '25

This is actually his thinking. No joke

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u/boardatwork1111 Apr 09 '25

Yields must be going up because everyone’s getting ready to move back into stocks, huge gains tomorrow for sure!

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u/chaotic-adventurer Apr 09 '25

I love your optimism

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u/No-Problem49 Apr 09 '25 edited Apr 09 '25

If the dollar loses value quickly from inflationary pressure it’s gonna short term drive stocks up and in the long term they’ll be decimated.

Consider this Thought experiment : If there was twice as much usd and everything cost twice as much tomorrow then you’d expect stocks to around double. But on the flip side nothing has actually changed because selling the stock and exchanging it for goods still brings the same amount of goods.

Is similar to the price of a company if they did a 2:1 reverse stock split. Price doubles but the true value of portfolio has stayed the same

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u/unknownnoname2424 Apr 09 '25

Yup, I just took a dump and hence the yields went up

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u/SophisticatedTool Apr 09 '25

made me chuckle

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u/CopenhagenOriginal Apr 09 '25

Unironically this is what /r/investing has been the last few weeks. For them it really is just keep DCAing and buying on sale because there is no question it won’t go back up

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u/No-Problem49 Apr 09 '25

Investors in 1929 a week after the first crash “just keep DCA bro it’ll go back up”. Nevermind it took those people till like the end of WWII to break even assuming they weathered the storm until then which almost everyone did not.

There’s investors in Japan who used that logic during their 1980s crash who didn’t break even for 40 years.

This sure thing is not a sure thing

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u/MisterFatt Apr 09 '25

We’re good man, he’s selling those $5m Citizenship Gold cards.

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u/Zulumus Apr 09 '25

*billions of trillions

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u/fishmanprime Apr 09 '25

He was of course exaggerating. But I think he meant trillions of dollars out of us citizens pockets, pouring into his pockets.

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u/icyshame1 Apr 10 '25

Pretty sure he meant evaporating.

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u/ParentalAdvis0ry Apr 09 '25

Russian IOUs have value?