Category Archives: China
Stock Market Coronavirus Crater Fear
The Dow cratered over 1,000 points on Monday. The stock market appears to have declared a Coronavirus pandemic.
Stock Market Coronavirus Crater
The girl in the picture isn’t any more real than the bull. They’re both statues. But she does have a name. It’s Fearless Girl.
Chinese Virus Emergency
The World Health Organization wants to ban Chinese virus exports. So this week it officially designated the coronavirus outbreak a public-health emergency.
But also this week, Boris Johnson gave the official o.k. for the U.K. to import Huawei G5 networking technology.
And that doesn’t sit well with Boris’s best buddy Donald Trump. Last May Trump issued his own national emergency, essentially banning Huawei in America.
Another Chinese Virus?
Secretary of State Pompeo believes China spies through Huawei networks. He’s in London to welcome Brexit but “warned that the Chinese Communist party did not have “a technical back door to Huawei. They have the front door.”
Comey Critiques Trump Soul Food
The Dow fell 450 points after President Trump tweeted threats to bump tariffs on $200 billion of China stuff from 10% to 25%. He also weighed in on the Kentucky Derby and Bob Mueller.
Trump Soul Food
But the president’s not alone in letting people know what he thinks. James Comey wrote an op-ed for the NYT claiming Trump eats Attorney General Barr’s soul in small bites.
Tariff Man
Click on Tariff Man to enlarge the image.
On Saturday President Trump and Chinese President Xi backed away from the precipice of trade war. And stocks jumped up.
But on Wednesday, Trump being Trump, tweeted “I am Tariff Man.”
And Wall Street jumped out the window.
Trump Speaks Kim Jong Un’s Language
Give President Trump credit. He speaks Kim Jong Un’s language. Trump promises Kim Fire and Fury. Kim says Trump is “a lump he can beat to a jelly.”
