Comments by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

As a business owner in the United States for almost 30 years now, I have no choice but to study the U.S. economy and understand market trends, because they impact my ecommerce retail business.

We have survived the dot-com bust of the early 2000s, the housing crisis in 2007-2008, and COVID.

But apparently most of the “journalists” in the corporate financial news networks have never run a business or had to balance their books to maintain a profit, or make business decisions to reflect economic realities, because the economic news since Trump came back to office has been nothing short of euphoric, pretending that the Golden Years of prosperity awaited us in Trump 2.0.

I could hardly believe some of the financial news I have read the past few weeks, where financial pundits have tried to explain how tariffs, specifically tariffs on goods imported from China, and thousands of federal workers being terminated and put out of work, were not going to negatively affect the economy.

But I guess they got a wake-up call this week when Walmart announced that they were going to have to raise prices in 2025, and the markets tanked on Thursday, which continued into Friday.

Duh! What did you think they were going to do when Trump placed tariffs on goods imported from China?

Outside of their grocery division, probably 99.99% of the goods sitting on shelves in Walmart stores (and many other retail stores in the U.S.) are imported from China. Did you really think they would just absorb that extra 10% cost tacked on to these imports from Trump’s tariffs, and not pass on at least some of that cost increase to the American consumers?

And as the tens of thousands of federal workers who are now being terminated will soon join the lines at unemployment offices and will soon have no more paychecks to spend in the U.S. economy, how did you not foresee major economic hardships ahead?

Did you honestly expect that the Billionaire Elon Musk was going to come in and save the day by promising what amounts to basically Universal Basic Income, and start cutting checks for $5000 for all Americans that he claims will come out of the savings from the DOGE cuts?

Really?

Similar to the law of gravity which you can account for but not change, so too basic economic principles will eventually force certain things to happen, whether anyone wants them to happen or not.

But when the majority of working-age Americans finally realize that not everyone can sit behind a computer and make a fortune, or drive a Tesla which one day is supposed to make you rich by renting it out as a Robotaxi, and that some people are actually going to have to get out from behind their computers and climb out of their Tesla cars and do the actual work that is needed to keep society running, especially after Trump deports a significant portion of the cheap labor of migrants who currently keep this country operating, will it be too late?

Do you really believe that the Technocrats now running Trump 2.0 are going bring in great profits from all the hundreds of $billions that have been invested in AI, when we can’t even keep our airplanes in the skies anymore, and Trump can’t even get a new Presidential jet made before he leaves office?

Do you really believe cryptocurrency is going to make us all rich, when all of this technology is so frail and hackable?

This was published yesterday, and it barely even made a ripple in the financial news:

Hackers steal $1.5 billion from exchange Bybit in biggest-ever crypto heist

Bybit, a major cryptocurrency exchange, has been hacked to the tune of $1.5 billion in digital assets, in what’s estimated to be the largest crypto heist in history.

The attack compromised Bybit’s cold wallet, an offline storage system designed for security. The stolen funds, primarily in ether, were quickly transferred across multiple wallets and liquidated through various platforms. (Source.)

Both Trump and Musk warned the public just after the November elections that hard economic times were coming, because the predators at the top of the food chain who control the banks, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley, they know full well what is coming.

But so far, the majority of investors in the markets have been ignoring what was already predicted by Trump and Musk many weeks before the inauguration.

Are they awake now, or will they return to the MAGA hopium drug that is still intoxicating so many Americans?

Dow wipes out its gains since Trump’s inauguration as ‘stagflation’ fears return

U.S. stocks ended the week on an ugly note Friday, posting their worst day of 2025 — and a run of soft economic data was getting much of the blame.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 748.63 points, or 1.7%, for its lowest close since Jan. 16, which was two trading sessions before President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. The S&P 500 also shed 1.7% — marking the biggest one-day percentage fall for both indexes since Dec. 18, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite COMP lost 2.2%.

The small-cap Russell 2000 took it especially hard, tumbling 2.9% — also its worst day since Dec. 18.

“Markets have a way of ignoring problems until they become unavoidable, and right now, stagflation risks — once dismissed as a relic of the 1970s — are creeping back into the conversation,”

said Stephen Innes, managing director at SPI Asset Management, in a note.

Stagflation refers to a combination of inflation and stagnant economic growth — a particularly pernicious combination. (Full article.)

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Tesla Downfall Near as China’s EV Sells More Cars and Offers Free FSD – Is Tesla About to Crash the Entire U.S. Stock Market?

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