Listen – if you want to know what it looks like when a president rigs the economy in plain sight, Trump is handing out the blueprint. Everyones busy watching his clown show with the Epstein Files and taking over cities with the National Guard, but the real play is happening quietly behind the curtain – and its about to hit every Americans wallet like a freight train.Jerome Powell gave a speech today that was a clear warning – if you know how to read between the lines.
(I posted it earlier today.) He basically said that the job market is flat and tariffs are going to force the fed to cut interest rates. This is what the oligarchs have been waiting for. Cheap Money they can borrow and invest in their techno feudal fantasies.But wait – theres more!On August 29th, the $800 duty-free loophole on imports goes away.
That means all those $15 Temu trinkets are about to cost $95, not because they got fancy but because Trump decided tariffs should hit the consumer directly. No more companies eating the cost to compete. The’se are flat fees tacked right onto your bill – $80 to $200 per shipment – and guess who pays?
You.Heres the scam. Tariffs jack up prices, inflation spikes, the Fed gets cornered. Powell has been holding interest rates steady, refusing to cave to Trump’s demands for cuts. But when inflation takes off because of the’se tariffs, the Fed will have to cut rates to keep the economy from suffocating.
Thats basic economics.Its also been revealed that Trump has quietly spent the past eight months buying over $100 million in bonds. Hundreds of transactions, day after day, scooping up corporate and municipal bonds like a guy with tomorrows lottery numbers. Why? Because bond prices soar when interest rates drop.
If Powell cuts, Trump cashe’s in.Hes manufacturing inflation to pressure the Fed into a rate cut, all while sitting on a portfolio designed to explode in value when it happens. Its the kind of scheme youd expect from a hedge fund villain, not a sitting president.The timing is perfect for him and disastrous for everyone else.
By fall, consumer prices will be climbing, small businesses will be squeezed, and Powell will be left with two bad options: cut rates and enrich Trump, or hold steady and get blamed for the pain. Either way, Trump walks away richer.This isn’t economic policy, its self-dealing. Every family forced to pay triple for school supplies or electronics is just collateral damage in Trump’s personal arbitrage game.
Hes turned the American economy into his own casino – and everyone knows what happened the last time he was in charge of a casino.If you have not been preparing for this – you better start.