[alabastervlog]

I truly wondered last Tuesday if he was only getting more "serious" because the market had stopped responding to his announce-a-planned-tariff-one-day-then-reverse-it-the-next strategy, so it was no longer useful, and he'd need to string them along far longer to make it work at least one more time.

[thomassmith65]

He's President. There's plenty of juice to squeeze out of the markets still. He could threaten to drop a nuke on Australia, for example.