The U.S. dollar is tanking — and the likely explanation is not flattering for Trump

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  On 4/5/2025 at 9:44 AM, Yagoda said:

You should use quotes on stuff you lift from others.

 

Bet you are just praying for an economic crash, arent you?

 

Wonder what your "but" will be on the next news.

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More mindreading.

[BLMFem]

  On 4/5/2025 at 9:44 AM, Yagoda said:

You should use quotes on stuff you lift from others.

 

Bet you are just praying for an economic crash, arent you?

 

Wonder what your "but" will be on the next news.

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Good idea.

 

As parts of my savings are in stock funds that's the last thing I wish for. It's bad enough already, but that's what you get when a useless clown is in charge. But at least the market crash hasn't interfered with with his endless golf rounds, thank the gods!

 

What a strange thing to say. Guess you're just grumpy that the job figures that you mentioned when closer examined aren't as great after all. Or maybe you're just tired from all the "winning".

[nauseus]

The dollar was slipping before lib day. It is not tanking ... yet.

 

But Trump was clear before the election that he wanted the USD and interest rates down.

 

The OP story is bs.

[Yagoda]

  On 4/5/2025 at 9:56 AM, BLMFem said:

As parts of my savings are in stock funds that's the last thing I wish for. It's bad enough already, but that's what you get when a useless clown is in charge. But at least the market crash hasn't interfered with with his endless golf rounds, thank the gods!

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Thanks for again demonstrating your troll identity.

[BLMFem]

  On 4/5/2025 at 10:10 AM, Yagoda said:

Thanks for again demonstrating your troll identity.

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Pointing out that Trump plays golf and, may I add, stuffs his gob at a LIV Golf dinner reception instead of attending a ceremony for four fallen U.S. soldiers after having ravaged the US and world economy is trolling?

Well, if that's so then I'm guilty as charged.

[rough diamond]

  On 4/5/2025 at 10:10 AM, Yagoda said:

Thanks for again demonstrating your troll identity.

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Just like yours!

[Dan O]

  On 4/5/2025 at 10:02 AM, nauseus said:

The dollar was slipping before lib day. It is not tanking ... yet.

 

But Trump was clear before the election that he wanted the USD and interest rates down.

 

The OP story is bs.

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Dont you hate it when facts get in the way of your fiction thinking?  It just spoils the mood doesn't it?

[nauseus]

  On 4/5/2025 at 12:30 PM, Dan O said:

Dont you hate it when facts get in the way of your fiction thinking?  It just spoils the mood doesn't it?

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I gave you the facts. No obstructions here. It looks like it's you that hate them 

[candide]

  On 4/5/2025 at 10:02 AM, nauseus said:

The dollar was slipping before lib day. It is not tanking ... yet.

 

But Trump was clear before the election that he wanted the USD and interest rates down.

 

The OP story is bs.

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He also stated that he wanted to reduce inflation, which can only be increased by a currency devaluation...

 

Trump is completely incoherent.

[DonniePeverley]

Not really tanking is it. 

 

Just a tiny little drop. 

 

 

[Dan O]

  On 4/5/2025 at 1:11 PM, nauseus said:

 

I gave you the facts. No obstructions here. It looks like it's you that hate them 

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You gave no facts to me just made an opinion that has no basis in fact.  You can try again but nothing changes

[mrwebb8825]

  On 4/4/2025 at 5:55 AM, BLMFem said:

Trump’s Tariffs Were Supposed to Boost the Dollar. Why the Opposite Happened.

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BS as usual:

The exchange rate for US dollar to Thai bahts is currently 34.123 today, reflecting a -0.828% change since yesterday. Over the past week, the value of US dollar has remained relatively stable, with a 0.720% increase compared to its value 7 days ago.

[Airalee]

  On 4/5/2025 at 6:24 AM, BLMFem said:

 

This is tanking together.

 

 

 

 

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Ummmm 🤨 

 

[CallumWK]

  On 4/5/2025 at 2:12 PM, mrwebb8825 said:

  On 4/4/2025 at 5:55 AM, BLMFem said:

Trump’s Tariffs Were Supposed to Boost the Dollar. Why the Opposite Happened.

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BS as usual:

The exchange rate for US dollar to Thai bahts is currently 34.123 today, reflecting a -0.828% change since yesterday.

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You do understand that means the dollar has weakened since yesterday?

[nauseus]

  On 4/5/2025 at 1:27 PM, candide said:

He also stated that he wanted to reduce inflation, which can only be increased by a currency devaluation...

 

Trump is completely incoherent.

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But Trump was clear before the election that he wanted the USD and interest rates down.

[JensenZ]

  On 4/5/2025 at 3:19 AM, spidermike007 said:

In terms of nasty and reckless moves, one that stands out for me is the gutting of U.S.A.I.D., because it’s illegal and because it’s so flagrantly immoral and utterly self-destructive. During the first Trump term, I would sometimes have to catch myself because even though I thought and think that Trump is uniquely despicable and dangerous, the fact remains that if you just want to look at the number of lives lost and global damage done, George W. Bush really outstripped him. Trump is maybe a worse person, but the damage that he did in his first term was much more contained.

 

I think that in the second Trump term he’s changed that very quickly. Not just by taking America’s soft power and setting it on fire in all sorts of ways, but really making these abrupt decisions that are going to kill hundreds of thousands and maybe more than a million people and he’s doing it in this incredibly arbitrary, careless way.

 

I don’t think he has a coherent value structure as most of us understand it. I think we’re seeing a president who’s operating without anything any of us would recognize as a conscience. Truly. It is about showing what he can get away with. It’s about showing his enemies that what they support, he can tear down. It is all about displays of brute strength. He gets off on that, and in that sense, it seems not so much an autocracy but a flexocracy. Let me show you how I can flex my bicep as I use it to power my fist coming into your face.

 

It’s not about any coherent values. It’s not about any North Star. It’s about showing that you can turn the boat 180 degrees around and that you can do whatever you want and you can bring the people who opposed you to their knees. Trump’s idea of power. If I can destroy, if I can defile and march on relatively unscathed and unpunished, that makes me powerful. Other people can’t get away with it, but that’s how dominant and superior I am.

 

Trump would not be where he is without the deep state or a similarly sinister organization or group of very powerful people who put him in that place, and are allowing him to conduct these extremely destructive economic policies. As reckless and as poorly thought out as all this seems, I think it's actually deliberate economic sabotage.

 

Unfortunately the average American and the average person without wealth throughout the world will end up being the victims. Tens of millions of Trump supporters will be very surprised at the end result, and it won't be a pleasant surprise. 

 

 

 

 

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You really should provide your sources.

 

At least one paragraph is a word-for-word copy from The New York Times article:

 

'Is the Destruction the Point?': Three Opinion Writers on Trump's first 50 Days.

 

Maybe you lifted everything from there or from other left-leaning, anti-Trump publications. 

 

 

[Patong2021]

  On 4/4/2025 at 10:53 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

Duh! He wants a lower $ so the US can sell more stuff to the rest of the world.

 

Next.

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Does the rest of the world want  US products?

[still kicking]

  On 4/5/2025 at 4:42 PM, Patong2021 said:

 

Does the rest of the world want  US products?

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I never bought anything made in the US

[MalcolmB]

  On 4/5/2025 at 5:07 AM, TheAppletons said:

The ignorant cheerleaders on here applauding the ongoing destruction of the USA are the anti-Americans.

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Count me in.

The destruction is just starting and I am stocked up on pop corn.

This will be entertaining.

 

[MalcolmB]

  On 4/5/2025 at 4:56 PM, still kicking said:

I never bought anything made in the US

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It is all garbage.That is why they have trade deficits, nobody wants it.

[KhunLA]

  On 4/5/2025 at 4:56 PM, still kicking said:

I never bought anything made in the US

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Except for food, nothing comes to mind, that I bought, made in USA.  I like Eddie Bauer clothes, but doubt if made in USA.

 

Last car was a Ford, made by Mazda, with Ford badge.  Nissan Maxima before that.  Honda MCs.

 

My scuba gear was made in USA, and a few firearms.

[MalcolmB]

  On 4/4/2025 at 10:53 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

Duh! He wants a lower $ so the US can sell more stuff to the rest of the world.

 

Next.

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And will make trips to Thailand for Americans more expensive.

So that will equal less Americans. 
Gee that is a shame.

[still kicking]

  On 4/5/2025 at 5:10 PM, KhunLA said:

Except for food, nothing comes to mind, that I bought, made in USA.  I like Eddie Bauer clothes, but doubt if made in USA.

 

Last car was a Ford, made by Mazda, with Ford badge.  Nissan Maxima before the.  Honda MCs.

 

My scuba gear was made in USA, and a few firearms.

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All my cars were made in Japan or Korea, and my clothes were made in Asia If I eat a hamburger, it is made from Australian beef we don't need firearms in Australia 

 

[still kicking]

  On 4/5/2025 at 5:14 PM, MalcolmB said:

And will make trips to Thailand for Americans more expensive.

So that will equal less Americans. 
Gee that is a shame.

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Don't worry about Kiwis 

[mrwebb8825]

  On 4/5/2025 at 2:12 PM, mrwebb8825 said:

the value of US dollar has remained relatively stable, with a 0.720% increase compared to its value 7 days ago.

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  On 4/5/2025 at 2:50 PM, CallumWK said:

 

You do understand that means the dollar has weakened since yesterday?

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I haven't seen 34.4 to 1 in awhile.

[KhunLA]

  On 4/5/2025 at 5:16 PM, still kicking said:

All my cars were made in Japan or Korea, and my clothes were made in Asia If I eat a hamburger, it is made from Australian beef we don't need firearms in Australia 

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Not much choice with cars, as no local manufacturing of.  Aussie and US beef is some of the best.

 

Also never needed a firearm in USA.

[metisdead]

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[spidermike007]

  On 4/5/2025 at 5:10 PM, KhunLA said:

Except for food, nothing comes to mind, that I bought, made in USA.  I like Eddie Bauer clothes, but doubt if made in USA.

 

Last car was a Ford, made by Mazda, with Ford badge.  Nissan Maxima before that.  Honda MCs.

 

My scuba gear was made in USA, and a few firearms.

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Very few American products are made in the US. Trump and most of his gullible supporters don't seem to understand why. They all seem to possess very little knowledge or understanding about the issue, nor have many educated themselves on the extraordinary beauty of global economic ecosystems. Even if an effort is made it would take a decade or longer to change. 

 

You can't bring back manufacturing to a nation that is not competitive. Period. It won't work and it won't happen. Nothing but hapless slogans, wishful thinking and massive economic destruction. Just like the 17 major businesses Trump destroyed, he is very busy wrecking the US economy and the world in the process. 

 

 

 

 

[stevenl]

  On 4/6/2025 at 12:34 AM, spidermike007 said:

he is not busy wrecking the US economy and the world in the process. 

 

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Typo, i presume you want to change or delete 'not'?

[nauseus]

  On 4/6/2025 at 12:34 AM, spidermike007 said:

Very few American products are made in the US. Trump and most of his gullible supporters don't seem to understand why. They all seem to possess very little knowledge or understanding about the issue, nor have many educated themselves on the extraordinary beauty of global economic ecosystems. Even if an effort is made it would take a decade or longer to change. 

 

You can't bring back manufacturing to a nation that is not competitive. Period. It won't work and it won't happen. Nothing but hapless slogans, wishful thinking and massive economic destruction. Just like the 17 major businesses Trump destroyed, he is very busy wrecking the US economy and the world in the process. 

 

 

 

 

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Never ending cobblers.