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Trump can’t ignore the stock market carnage forever

4 April 2025

8:31 PM

4 April 2025

8:31 PM

As it turned out, the only thing Liberation Day was actually liberating anyone from was their money. In the wake of President Trump’s imposition of a massive round of tariffs on America’s trading partners the stock market has been in freefall. For the moment Trump is ignoring that. But he won’t be able to forever – a bear market is too damning a verdict on his presidency.

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