The stock market doesn't much care for the tariffs, does it?

References:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/business/jamie-dimon-tariff-warning

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/06/treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-markets-tariffs-recession.html

https://www.thestreet.com/personalities/scott-bessent-net-worth

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/speaker-johnson-cuts-deal-rep-luna-parental-proxy/story?id=120545742

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-argues-judge-cant-order-return-of-kilmar-abrego-garcia/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/who-is-russell-vought-trump-office-of-management-and-budget

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/peter-navarro-says-vietnams-0percent-tariff-offer-is-not-enough-its-the-non-tariff-cheating-that-matters.html

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/valueaddedtax.asp

https://www.newsweek.com/don-bacon-tariffs-spurred-worst-depression-ever-had-2056024

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/black-americans-trump-politics.html

The tariffs hit, the economy goes in the toilet and the Senate is about to use one weird trick to give billionaires a huge tax cut while pretending it won't blow a $5 trillion hole in our deficit.

References:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/a-timeline-of-trumps-tariff-actions-so-far

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/trump-fake-tariff-rates-1.7501604

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-things-going-very-220759324.html

https://trumpgolftrack.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/us/politics/republicans-senate-rules-tax-cuts.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/social-security-layoffs-trump-musk/

Wisconsin demonstrates that Elon's money does not win elections. Hopefully, other Republicans will start to take note.

References:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/politics/johnson-luna-proxy-voting-parents-house-gop/index.html

https://www.wisn.com/article/wisconsin-voters-approve-constitutional-voter-id-amendment/64357959

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/politics/elon-musk-tesla-wisconsin.html

https://newrepublic.com/post/193424/elon-musk-doge-usip-nonprofit-seize-building

https://www.newsweek.com/doge-cuts-update-today-contracts-cancelled-2052525

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/eric-adams-case-dismissed-new-york-trump-doj.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-ice-immigrants.html

Off-script today, observations about why things feel like they really suck, from an economic perspective.

Reference: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/business/economy/wealth-cash-inequality.html

Americans seem to be particularly susceptible to being scammed.

References :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1676328/

https://www.cspinet.org/news/airborne-agrees-pay-233-million-settle-lawsuit-over-false-advertising-its-miracle-cold-buster

https://www.fda.gov/food/information-consumers-using-dietary-supplements/questions-and-answers-dietary-supplements

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/pumpanddump.asp 

Tim Minchin "Storm":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

Still waiting for that sweet, sweet Soros money...in the meantime, Elon Musk is trying to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

References:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/climate/epa-air-pollution-exemption-mercury-coal-ash.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/27/acid-rain-trump-epa

https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-lottery-trump-b272e6af6c18ff5b73cd100ecec275b7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/

https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-order-elections-voting-constitution-8908477167fd65dc9cd485e1fde5b804

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-27/trump-targets-california-for-withholding-parent-information-about-student-gender-identity

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/health/texas-measles-vitamin-a-toxicity/index.html

The Trump Administration makes an oopsie.

References:

https://apnews.com/united-states-presidential-election-events-8c6d7abff90d4580920c6cfc8591d361

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/25/us/trump-hegseth-war-plans-leak-signal

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-turns-away-casino-mogul-wynns-bid-challenge-ny-times-v-sullivan-2025-03-24/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/columbia-trump-response.html

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/25/project-esther-trump-protests-deportations

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws/index.html

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-consumer-confidence-tumbled-again-in-march-302410584.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/politics/republicans-congress-signal-leak.html

https://www.newsweek.com/atlantics-goldberg-considering-release-full-trump-war-plan-texts-2050295

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-mike-johnson-floats-eliminating-federal-courts-rcna197986

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5213057-noem-plans-eliminate-fema/

The Trump Administration is ramping up lawfare against its perceived enemies.

References:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8823897-do-not-obey-in-advance-most-of-the-power-of

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/22/donald-trump-law-firms-threat-027250

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbia-university-trump-demands-funding-rcna197261

https://fortune.com/2025/03/21/trump-executive-order-paul-weiss-law-firm-government-contracts-pro-bono-legal-services/

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/16/nx-s1-5230274/abc-settles-with-trump-for-15-million-now-he-wants-to-sue-other-news-outlets

https://www.masslive.com/politics/2025/03/northeast-gop-congressman-rages-over-doge-social-security-decision.html

https://apnews.com/article/weather-forecasts-worsen-doge-trump-cuts-tornado-da573a044916c06cebcdb92b1f1452e6

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/03/17/heres-how-trumps-executive-orders-align-with-project-2025-as-he-touts-agenda-in-speech-to-congress/

https://theconversation.com/i-watched-hungarys-democracy-dissolve-into-authoritarianism-as-a-member-of-parliament-and-i-see-troubling-parallels-in-trumpism-and-its-appeal-to-workers-224930

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-gen-z-men-voted-for-trump/

Ross joins me to shoot the shit today!

Karoline Leavitt finally told a truth this past week and it was a complete accident.