Sunday, 13 April 2025 — The Planning Motive
This is the final article for what was one of the most eventful weeks in the financial markets since the onset of the pandemic. At least then it was known the virus could kill, now nothing is known about what the Trump virus is up to. Trump has a proud record. Of the last ten most volatile days in the stock markets since the War, nine of them have occurred under his presidential watch.
Trump declared Liberation Day on the 9th April. The way things are turning out its more like Incarceration Day as accusations of insider trading swirls around his administration. The volatility driven by Trump’s on-off tariffs has created enormous speculative opportunities for his circle, for MAGA congressmen/women and for traders. (I will analyse bank profits further down the article but their trading desks reaped tens of billions in profits.) With so much power in one man’s hands, and with this man’s previous record, he was bound to cast a long shadow of corruption, even when the sun does not shine. Its all there in his book: The Art of the Grifter.
The New Dark Age 
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