As I predicted, President Trump quietly announced on Truth Social that he is purposefully crashing the stock market, as part of his Save America plan, in order to force the Federal Reserve into lowering interest rates. Why? So that the economy can thrive with lower borrowing costs and we can reduce the US TRILLION DOLLAR interest debt. It’s always darkest before the dawn.
VIDEO: “Trump is crashing the stock market by 20% this month, but he’s doing it on purpose. This is why Warren Buffett just said that President Trump is making the best economic moves for the country that he’s seen in over 50 years. Here’s the secret game he’s playing. He’s pushing cash into US Treasuries which forces the Fed to slash interest rates in May.
These lower rates gives the Fed the ability to REFINANCE TRILLIONS of dollars of debt very inexpensively. It also weakens the dollar and drops mortgage rates for consumers. His tariff strategy is a genius play. It actually forces companies to build here to dodge them. It also forces farmers to sell more of their products here in the US to bring grocery prices way down. We’ve already seen this with eggs.
Remember, 94% of all stocks are owned by only 8% of Americans. So, President Trump is taking from the rich short-term and handing the money to the middle-class through lower prices.”
Warren Buffett is sitting on record cash of over $330 BILLION. He knows the stock market is too high. The Buffett Indicator (Total US Market Value/GDP) is a ballpark measure of how expensive stocks are at any one point in history. It’s now sitting at roughly 210%.
BUFFETT: “If the ratio approaches 200%, as it did in 1999, you are playing with fire.”
Warren Buffett also believes in America First and fair trade and the use of tariffs to balance the trade deficit. He just calls it something different.
In other words, Warren Buffett believes in deploying the same economic strategy as Trump & Bessent. His handlers just don’t want you to know it!
SCOTT BESSENT: “The equity market selloff is a Mag7 problem, not a MAGA problem.”
Treasury Secretary Bessent is saying that the stock market is concentrated in too few hands and in too few stocks. As of March 2025, the "Magnificent Seven" stocks (Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla) account for roughly 32% of the S&P 500's total market capitalization. As a whole, Magnificent Seven stocks lost more than $1 trillion in collective market cap yesterday. These 7 tech stocks are what is primarily driving the loss.
To show you just how much the Mag7 stocks have manipulated the stock market in the last 15 years, this is the S&P 500. Does this growth mirror the economy that YOU live in and experience every day? Not me.
Note that the S&P 500 was roughly 4000 in December 2019 before COVID hit. This morning it was 5,171 - still up 29% from that 2019 high. I’ve lived through the crashes of 1987, the tech bubble in 2000, the housing bubble in 2008 and the COVID crash in 2000. This one is long overdue. Anyone who tells you different is a liar.
On the other hand, retail investors (like you and me) bought $4.7 billion in stocks on Thursday, the highest level over the past decade.
China immediately panicked after Trump’s new tariffs and decided to reciprocate AND escalate. Trump said they played it wrong. Why? Because the average tariff on Chinese products coming into the U.S. was only 2% - whereas the average tariff on U.S. goods going into China is 35%. Is that reciprocal? No, China has been screwing us for years. In addition, China has gotten away with shipping their goods from other countries (like Cambodia and Vietnam) in order to avoid tariffs. The new rates won’t allow them to do that anymore.
BESSENT: “As a student of economics I can tell you that the surplus countries always lose in a trade war escalation, and we are the deficit and everybody else is a surplus country.”
Meanwhile, March jobs in America rose by 228,000 - exceeding expectations by 50%.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: GREAT JOB NUMBERS, FAR BETTER THAN EXPECTED. IT’S ALREADY WORKING. HANG TOUGH, WE CAN’T LOSE!!!
TO THE MANY INVESTORS COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES AND INVESTING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE. THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE!!
THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
JOBS REPORT by the numbers:
- 228,000 jobs added, beating expectations by 88,000.
- 459,000 increase in full time workers.
- 209,000 increase in private employment.
- 13,000 increase in construction jobs.
- 22,900 increase in transportation & warehousing jobs.
- 23,700 increase in retail trade jobs.
- 232,000 increase in the labor force.
- 4,000 decline in federal government jobs.
Senator Kennedy: “President Trump is saying that if you foreign businesses want to sell in America, then move your business here and hire American workers."
Listen to Bessent explain Trump’s strategy to Tucker:
Trump’s strategy is also to force Jerome Powell at the Federal Reserve into cutting interest rates.
The Fed has maintained its benchmark rate at 4.25%-4.5% for two consecutive meetings, despite Trump's public demands for rate cuts. Trump wants to pressure the Fed into cutting rates, forcing bond yields lower to ease debt refinancing costs.
$9.2 trillion is the amount of debt the United States government must refinance in the year 2025 alone, with $6.5 trillion due by June.
TRUMP: “Interest Rates should be lowered, something which would go hand in hand with upcoming Tariffs!!! Lets Rock and Roll, America!!!”
The 10 Year Treasury has already dropped below 4%. Keep going!
If political pressure forces the Fed to cut rates aggressively, combined with renewed central bank balance sheet expansion, this could amplify global liquidity. Rate cuts would lower borrowing costs for consumers (mortgages, credit cards, auto loans) and businesses. Dollar-denominated debt markets would ALSO benefit from cheaper refinancing.
Can President Trump fire Powell?
PERPLEXITY: “Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell cannot be legally fired by the president over policy disagreements, as the Federal Reserve Act stipulates that board members can only be removed "for cause," such as neglect of duty or malfeasance.”
If Trump can prove that Powell is keeping interest rates high for political reasons and to hurt Americans - that is a fireable offense.
Cutting borrowing costs, taxes and regulations, while reducing the cost of food and energy for the middle class & bringing back America jobs, will spur growth like never before. Look at the price of oil - lowering energy prices drives INFLATION DOWN for everything and that helps the middle class more than anything.
The real plan all along was to lower interest rates and lower oil prices as soon as possible. The 10-year note yield is down -90 bps and oil prices are down -25%. The tariffs are "working" as planned.
The richest people in the world all lost money this week due to Trump's tariffs except for Warren Buffett. Tell me again how Warren disagrees with Trump's economic policy. He does not. He actually bet on Trump to win. So did I.
WATCH as America enters a new GOLDEN AGE. It may look scary now but, as I’ve learned, it’s always darkest before dawn.
Made AGAIN in America!
PS: I am not a financial advisor and this is not financial advice. JUST COMMON SENSE.
A Team of Rivals for a new Golden Age
Almost 6 months ago, I wrote a 6-part series on Trump’s plan to Save America. That series spelled out my best guess as to his reasoning for gathering together a Team of Rivals to Save America and restore her as a true leader in the world in many areas - including technology, free speech, energy, AI, manufacturing, finance, healthcare, research, developm…
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Oil prices are down, interest rates are down (the slow moving Fed should cut rates!), food prices are down, there is NO INFLATION, and the long time abused USA is bringing in Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries on Tariffs that are already in place. This is despite the fact that the biggest abuser of them all, China, whose markets are crashing, just raised its Tariffs by 34%, on top of its long term ridiculously high Tariffs (Plus!), not acknowledging my warning for abusing countries not to retaliate.
They’ve made enough, for decades, taking advantage of the Good OL’ USA! Our past “leaders” are to blame for allowing this, and so much else, to happen to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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