U.S. Central Command did not say precisely what it was trying to destroy in Iran, but it said the attacks were aimed at Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
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Trump strikes Iran, calls them 'crazy and stupid,' Dow drops 450 points same day.
As it ran on the front
The United States struck targets in Iran near the Strait of Hormuz on the President's order, in response to sea mines. The President then described Iran, on the record, as 'crazy' and 'stupid.' The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 450 points that day. Oil prices rose. The ten-year Treasury yield moved toward five percent. These facts come from separate outlets and none of them dispute the other three.
Run the filing against the table, hon. A military strike is an executive action with no line item that shows up on a household's monthly statement. A 450-point drop in the Dow is not an executive action; it is a substantial share of market capitalization, distributed across pension funds, 401(k) accounts, and index funds, most of which are owned by people who did not vote for the strike, did not vote against the strike, and were not consulted about the strike, because that is not how strikes work.…
…(cont) The gap here is not between what happened and what was reported. Everyone reported the same afternoon. The gap is between who ordered the event and who is holding the instrument that priced it. Treasury yields racing toward five percent means the federal government's own future borrowing gets more expensive, a cost that arrives later, itemized nowhere, paid by whoever is still filing taxes when the bill comes due.
Oil prices rising the same day a Strait used for a large share of the world's seaborne oil trade gets a mine incident is not a coincidence requiring investigation; it is a market doing arithmetic in public, correctly, immediately, the way markets do when the input is 'shipping lane, contested.'
None of this requires a motive. The strike happened. The statement was made. The market moved 450 points. The yield moved toward five. Whose column that shows up in is not a mystery — it is a retirement statement, mailed monthly, with a smaller number on it than last month's, for reasons the statement itself does not explain and was never going to.
“They order a strike, call the other guy stupid on the record, and by dinner the Dow's down 450 points and your retirement account ate the difference. The people holding the bag didn't get a vote on it. That's the whole arrangement: they make the call, you make the payment.”
“The strike was a targeted response to mines in an internationally vital waterway, full stop, and frankly conflating that with a single bad trading day is exactly the kind of market hysteria that — look, markets fluctuate, that's what they do, 450 points is well within normal — did I just call a 450-point drop normal? That's not — let me rephrase.”
The receipts
President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Iran on Tuesday, saying if the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps retaliated in response to U.S. Central Command’s Tuesday strikes, the country would be “hit much harder.” “If they retaliate, they’ll be hit much harder.
Stocks fell Tuesday while rising oil prices pushed bond yields higher, a bumpy start to the month as investors fear renewed fighting in Iran could inflate prices and convince the Fed to hike interest rates.
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