"Tesla’s stock has undergone a withering sell-off, and the CNBC All-America Economic survey finds more than 47% of the public have a negative view of the company. Another 27% are positive on the electric vehicle maker, while 24% are neutral."

~ Steve Liesman

#Musk #Tesla #Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession #WallStreet
/15

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/about-half-of-americans-have-a-negative-view-on-tesla-and-elon-musk-cnbc-survey-finds.html#:~:text=Tesla's%20stock%20has%20undergone%20a,%2C%20while%2024%25%20are%20neutral.

"I want to suggest today that what we are seeing on Wall Street and in markets around the world is the sudden realization that the president is mentally unstable – that he has dementia, probably – and as a result of that realization, investors no longer have any faith in Donald Trump."

~ John Stoehr

#Musk #Tesla #Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession #WallStreet
/14

https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/trump-wall-street/

"But those attacks are only rattling markets and investors more, backfiring on Trump. We talked to one of the best economic commentators out there, Washington Post columnist Heather Long, author of a new piece on how Trump’s 'tariff madness' is likely to drive us into a recession. She explains why the prognosis is so grim—and why Trump is in a bind with no easy way out."

#Musk #Tesla #Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession
/13

"On Tuesday, largely due to President Trump’s tariffs, the International Monetary Fund downgraded its projections for economic growth in a big way. Meanwhile, we’re already starting to see layoffs. All that comes as new polls show Trump cratering on the economy. Trump is now angrily shifting blame to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for the tariff fallout."

~ Greg Sargent

#Musk #Tesla #Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession
/12

https://newrepublic.com/article/194279/madness-trump-tariff-lunacy-suddenly-darkens-amid-brutal-poll-drop

"Tesla was once the darling of Wall Street, and Musk was the 'boy genius' who could do no wrong. Those days are gone. Tesla released its financial statements for the first quarter of 2025, and the news was grim. Tesla’s net income was down 71% due to a sharp decline in automotive sales."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Musk #Tesla #Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession
/11

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-protests-are-working-just-ask

"GALLUP: Record-high 53% of Americans now say their financial situation is getting worse — the first time since 2001 that a majority has expressed financial pessimism."

~ InteractivePolls, quoted by Greg Dworkin

#Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession
/10

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/23/2318176/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Chickens-are-coming-home-to-roost

"Congratulations to Trump on making America Great Depression again."

~ Emily Singer

#Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession
/9

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/22/2317992/-Want-another-Great-Depression-Trump-s-got-you-covered

"It’s about the politicisation of the monetary-fiscal nexus under a Trumpian regime that is fundamentally hostile to the norms of liberal-democratic governance. When even the dollar is no longer a safe haven, what – or who – can be?"

#Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession #IMF
/8

"The IMF is warning of a non-negligible risk of a $1tn hit to global output, as Donald Trump’s erratic 'America first' agenda – part oligarchic enrichment scheme, part mobster shakedown – collides with a perfect storm of global financial vulnerabilities. ...

The real concern here is not technical dysfunction in treasury markets or the mechanics of the Fed, which are the bedrock of the global financial system."

#Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession #IMF
/7

"Wake up! When the most sober of global institutions, the International Monetary Fund, abandons its usual technocratic calm to sound the alarm on the political roots of global financial instability, it’s time to pay attention."

~ The Guardian

#Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession #IMF
/6

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/22/the-guardian-view-on-the-imfs-warning-donald-trump-could-cost-the-world-a-trillion-dollars

"Our standing in the world after threatening to attack our neighbors and allies, breaking our word on international agreements (including those negotiated by Trump first time around), and weakening international institutions hasn’t been lower since America emerged as a global power over 100 years ago. Trust in the U.S., a great source of our strength, is broken."

~ David Rothkopf

#Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession
/5

https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/the-donald-j-trump-plan-to-stop-donald

"Trump’s actions have caused what many in financial world are dubbing,
Sell USA.' Stocks, U.S. government bonds, and the U.S. dollar are all sliding at the same time—which is not typical. ... Would you invest in the stock market of a nation run by an autocrat like Orban or Russia?! That is how people increasingly see America from the outside."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession
/4

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/ali-velshi-trump-has-made-investors

"We are, in short, in a worse position than we were before Trump began his tariff bluster. Being a cowardly, loud-mouthed bully presiding over utter chaos is not an effective negotiating strategy."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession
/3

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cronyism-capitulation-and-chaos

"Mr. Trump thinks he can bully everyone into submission, but he can’t bully Adam Smith, who deals in reality. Markets know tariffs are taxes, and taxes are anti-growth. The Trump tariffs are the biggest economic policy mistake in decades, and extending the 2017 tax reform and deregulation may not compensate for all the damage."

~ Wall Street Journal

#Trump #economy #StockMarkets #tariffs #Dow #recession
/2

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-jerome-powell-federal-reserve-kevin-hassett-tariffs-interest-rates-markets-acd5c7b3

#Dow futures jump 400 points after Trump says he doesn’t plan to get rid of Fed chief.

Blinkety-blink-blink- blink. Blink blink. Blink.

Trump is the very embodiment of reactionary.

https://cnb.cx/42Xxrde

"It’s not just the destructive tariffs. It’s also the chaos, as policy zigzags wildly, and the craziness. If you were a foreign investor, would you want to bet on America right now? Would you even want to visit to look at investment prospects, given the risk that you might be imprisoned by ICE because you once sent a text critical of Trump?"

#Trump #tariffs #FederalReserve #StockMarket #recession #Dow #Nasdaq #dollar
/10

"Trump inherited an economy in remarkably good shape. We’d had 'immaculate disinflation': The inflation spike of 2021-22, largely caused by Covid-related supply chain disruptions, had faded away without a large rise in unemployment.

But Trump wasted no time in squandering the hand he’d been given."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #tariffs #FederalReserve #StockMarket #recession #Dow #Nasdaq #dollar
/9

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/stop-in-the-name-of-trump