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2025-04-07 Economy

Pro-Trump billionaire Bill Ackman issues dire warning as he calls for immediate 90-day pause on tariffs amid fears of Black Monday market meltdown after stocks collapse across the world

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-07 02:21|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11123 views ] Top

#1 Global stock market meltdown leaves Wall Street fearing repeat of 1987's Black Monday amid Trump tariff fallout

Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-07 02:25|| 2025-04-07 02:25|| Front Page Top

#2 The tariffs are already pausing themselves.

https://watcher.guru/news/on-liberation-day-india-to-drop-tariffs-on-us-goods

Posted by no mo uro 2025-04-07 06:54|| 2025-04-07 06:54|| Front Page Top

#3 If you are a true Leftist, you've really got to be confused given that for decades you have sought to undermine and collapse the oligarchy and seek the triumph of the working class. Now you are sitting there watching this with absolutely conflicted feelings.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-04-07 07:24|| 2025-04-07 07:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Now you are sitting there watching this with absolutely conflicted feelings.

"Yes, but when we were true Leftist college revolutionaries, we didn't have 401(k)s."

Posted by SteveS 2025-04-07 08:59|| 2025-04-07 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't remember being all that discomforted by the 1987 'disaster'. Let's give 'The New New Deal' some more time.

Posted by Bobby 2025-04-07 09:11|| 2025-04-07 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 The market recovered.

Posted by Crusader 2025-04-07 16:47|| 2025-04-07 16:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Didn't it, though! But I recall being pretty impressed that my parents were buying big (big as they could; it's not like they slept on a mattress full of cash) with blood in the Street, and seeing it as their patriotic duty to do so. Which of course it was.

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-04-07 21:50|| 2025-04-07 21:50|| Front Page Top

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