by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Yesterday, April 9, 2025, the U.S. Stock Market saw its intraday trading suddenly increase to levels that have never before been seen in a single day, after President Donald Trump announced a pause on some tariffs.

Shortly after that, Trump had a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House with NASCAR drivers Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano, along with Charles R. Schwab, founder of the Charles Schwab Corporation.

Someone in that group took a video of the event, and Trump was recorded as saying:

This is Charles Schwab…it’s not just a company, it’s actually an individual. He made two and half billion today, and he (pointing to someone else) made 900 million. (Source.)

I have uploaded a copy of the video to our Odysee channel:

Here is a screenshot of the tweet, since damaging tweets on X that do not follow Musk and Trump’s narrative frequently disappear:

The United States is now an emerging market. We now have a government by the lawless, shameless and clueless.

Trump waves from the presidential golf cart — “Caddyshack One”? — at the Trump National Doral Golf Club as markets tanked on April 3. Photo by Joe Raedle – Source.

Brett Arends is becoming my favorite Wall St. analyst and commentator. I am going to quote some great comments he published today in the Corporate Financial News.

Check out the stock price of DJT yesterday, just before Trump paused the tariffs, driving the market higher. 😉

Opinion: The United States is now an emerging market. Invest accordingly.

You might say the U.S. is now an emerging market that sells for about 50% more than developed markets

By Brett Arends
MarketWatch

Excerpts (emphasis mine):

I don’t have one nickel invested in U.S. stocks these days, and after the fiasco of the past week I am not sorry. Actually, I find it insane and terrifying that so many ordinary U.S. investors have so much of their life savings in stocks, and especially in U.S. stocks, and have a kind of blind faith that these investments will reliably generate 10% or 15% or even 20% returns each year with very little risk.

It’s nuts.

America is now an emerging market.

I’m old enough to remember when we had three branches of government. Congress set things like budget and tax policy, the executive branch executed the laws, and the judiciary adjudicated.

Now, apparently, all power is vested not only in the executive branch but in a small cabal at the top.

Last Wednesday President Donald Trump arbitrarily imposed sweeping taxes on all imports to America. This Wednesday he arbitrarily abandoned them.

Did you catch the president’s joke early Wednesday morning, by the way? Hours before our caudillo announced he was pausing his tariffs he sent out a message.

You had to subscribe to the president’s personal, for-profit public messaging service, Truth Social, to get it.

“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT” he wrote.

The letters at the end aren’t just his initials. They are also the stock-market ticker symbol for Trump Media & Technology Group DJT, the company that owns and operates Truth Social.

Trump, through a revocable trust managed by his children, owns 52% of its stock. And, yes, it was “a great time to buy … DJT.”

The stock, $16.66 before the president’s message, rocketed 25% afterward amid the euphoria that he — unilaterally — had unleashed.

Personal gain for Trump and his family on the day? Up to $480 million. No, really: The 114.75 million shares owned by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust saw a maximum gain of $4.20 each.

Trump announced his tariff pause just two days and a few hours after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that reports the president was considering such a pause were — quote, unquote — fake news.

In no other developed country I can think of would this happen — or would Leavitt still have a job.

We now have a government by the lawless, shameless and clueless. Administration officials currently claim that this entire fiasco was their plan all along.

The president declared economic war on the rest of the world, with few exceptions, and then went off on a jaunt to one of his golf courses. (If the president’s airplane is Air Force One and the president’s helicopter is Marine One, what is the name for the presidential golf cart? Caddyshack One?)

Overall, emerging-market stocks worldwide sell for an average of around 13 times forecast per-share earnings, SG calculates.

The U.S.? Somewhere between 20 and 25 times, depending on how you calculate it.

It makes no sense. Not only is the U.S. market grossly expensive compared with (other) emerging markets; it’s also expensive compared with developed markets.

You know — places that have political checks and balances, legislators who turn up for work, political leaders bound by laws, rules and civilized norms, and where they don’t put budget policy in the hands of a guy waving a chainsaw in the air.

Developed markets trade for just 13 times forecast earnings, according to SG data.

In other words, the U.S. is now an emerging market that sells for about 50% more than developed markets. (Full article.)

Brett Arends is an award-winning financial writer with many years experience writing about markets, economics and personal finance. He has received an individual award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for his financial writing, and was part of the Boston Herald team that won two others. He has worked as an analyst at McKinsey Co., and is a Chartered Financial Consultant. His latest book, “Storm Proof Your Money”, was published by John Wiley Co.

This article was written by Human Superior Intelligence (HSI)

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