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🗓️ 11 April 2025
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Let's talk about Trump's pause, bonds, and the inevitable....
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0:01.0 | Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again. |
0:04.9 | So today, we're going to talk about Trump's pause, bonds, and the inevitable. |
0:11.3 | Trump paused his tariffs for 90 days, and the stock market shot up. |
0:16.5 | But that is absolutely not the story today. |
0:19.9 | Over the next week, you're going to be flooded with explanations |
0:22.9 | for Trump's actions. Most will be after-the-fact rationalizations. This is what happened. |
0:30.7 | Two things converged to make Trump call off his trade war. First is the Senate budget plan, |
0:37.4 | trying to hide trillions in debt by extending |
0:40.0 | Trump's tax cuts without any discernible way of funding the cuts. The second is his inflationary |
0:47.0 | tariffs moving forward. Those two things cause the bond market to, for lack of a better term, freak out. |
0:55.7 | Yield shot up, which means it's seen as more risky to have U.S. debt. |
1:01.0 | This is something that could threaten the entire financial system in the U.S. |
1:05.9 | from massive banks to mom and pop stores to you. |
1:10.2 | The bond market development was inevitable if Trump pursued his plans. |
1:15.7 | It was also foreseeable from the day he took office. |
1:20.9 | That's a bold claim. |
1:23.2 | Down below will be a video released the day Trump took office, which details, well, this. |
1:30.1 | Literally this scenario. |
1:32.2 | Specifically saying that if Trump wasn't fiscally responsible with his tax cuts and didn't back |
1:37.5 | off his tariff plans, the bond market would freak out. |
1:41.4 | It even says he could ignore the bond market initially, but only for so long. |
1:47.7 | Do the people claiming its 4DHS have videos from the day he took office explaining what would |
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