It’s the first day back after a 3-day closure of the market. Monday was Martin Luther King Day, so I was expecting things to drop. However the real story his more about the way that the president is calling for more tariffs against a bunch of countries that don’t agree that he should own Greenland. They say they will just stop all trade with the US if he does. With that, all the news media is talking about how the stock market is crashing because of it. Everyone is panicking. Me? I dropped about 35 dollars which is not really hurting me. Yet.
Tomorrow he is supposed to speak at a big meeting overseas where a bunch of billionaires are there too, along with a bunch of world leaders. I’m sure he’ll complain that he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize and he’ll talk about how he has stopped 100 wars, and is the best of the bestest something or other. Doesn’t matter, he is the best regardless. But he will also insult and degrade all the other country leaders and talk about how he doesn’t care is NATO is against him. He’s better than all of them. Then he will declare World War 3 because he is a tough guy and wants to show off his muscle.
Kind of like he did in that parade for his birthday in Washington.
Anyway, tomorrow will be interesting. Today the indexes seemed to go down a lot but I think it was a bunch of stocks in the index all going down a little, and dragging the whole thing down. Since I only have 2 index mutual funds, I lost a bit there but just a little bit in the other stocks and ETFs.
Can’t wait to hear how his speech goes over there.
