Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Public Occurrences March 11, 2025

Erratic Trump Tariffs Tilt Toward Trump Recession

Trump Told Trudeau Great Lakes, and 1908 Land Border Treaties Invalid
  
 
4:58 pm

Canada Caves: Ontario Premier Rescinds Elec. Cutoffs to New York, Minn. Michigan; Trump Calls Off Doubled Tariff on Canadian Metals

4:47 pm:

Wall Street falls in a manic day after briefly dropping more than 10% below its record

...the market’s slide on Tuesday was erratic and dizzying.
...
Stocks have been heaving mostly lower on uncertainty about how much pain Trump is willing for the economy to endure in order to get what he wants.

(AP)

2:04 pm
Trump doubles planned tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum to 50% as trade war intensifies

“The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear.”
(AP)

Yeah, that's "the only thing that makes sense."

Said Ontario Premier Doug Ford,

If we go into a recession it’s self made by one person. It’s called President Trump’s recession."

That makes more sense.