The tariff bomb wipes out $10 trillion in stock market value, half of the EU’s entire GDP

https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-04-08/the-tariff-bomb-wipes-out-10-trillion-in-stock-market-value-half-of-the-eus-entire-gdp.html

by Little-Storage3955

34 comments

  2. The EU refuses to cooperate with major powers. My country, Turkey, has also been denied entry. We Turks were hopeful, but we’ve been turned away. I once promised to play Ode to Joy when the day came—but not now. The EU disappoints me more than ever. I wanted to be European so badly, but my country is not being accepted for weak reasons. It’s such a shame.

  3. Trump doesn’t know how to negotiate, he only knows how to bully!

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    Intimidation will only breed tension… and the world will unite against the United States!

  4. Nearly 10% of the world gdp feels more impactful

  5. We’re all living in Tariffland! Tariffland ist wunderbar!

  7. It’s about time we vote for a Donkey for the presidency.

  8. > Comparing asset value to GDP

    When will this meme end?

  9. I swear, if I see another headline comparing asset values to GDP I’ll go fucking ballistic. Can journalist not be just a tiny bit serious?

  10. The best opportunities to create real wealth are right now. The weak retail holders selling their stocks right now are stupid. You’re selling close to the bottom. While you’re selling, the larger players are buying your shares at a discount.

    Everyone always looks back at these points in the market and says to themselves damn, If I had only bought on this dip, I’d be rich!

    The last opportunity we had like this was covid. Go look at the covid crash, and how it recovered, and went to all time highs.

  11. This is hybrid war. It will weaken democratic values by crashing small companies & middle class, slows EU to build defense and promotes aggressors to make a move. We are not talking about fair trade or human rights any more. It is a war. The only way out is to fight back.

  12. The rich are certainly not going to use this as another opportunity to hoover up wealth 

  13. Sounds like the USA is tired of being on the underside of protectionist European economic policy.

  18. Remember the big brains who sat behind trump during his inauguration, they are the first ones who need to be held accountable……

  19. And nearly all of it is lost in the US, EU/Asia are relatively unaffected because they don’t have inflated stock values.

  20. So when it’s over, the Rich buying company’s for cheap money trough stocks? TbH I think this is his plan

    Because as soon he gonna lift the tarrifs. And this will happend 100% at some point, alot will rise again.

    Or are they simply betting on falling stocks? Or is it to privatise public services?

  21. that such a paranoid masochistic headline

    1- did not wipe out from EU markets alone
    2- it is the actual opposite of GDP as this are market speculations on the real produced future value of real products

    please for the love of god can we all collectively stop being so scared ?
    the US is self inflicting like the drug addicted spoiled brat they are

    so fucking what

  22. How does the conservative view of being fiscally responsible turn into this, a crash of the market and trillions lost?

    I suspect a lot of right wingers being in someone’s book, a certain Pladimir Vutin.

  24. Everything is still overvalued anyway. The stock market isn’t really “real” or tangible.

  25. A $10 trillion market wipeout isn’t just about numbers on a screen — it translates into lost jobs, higher prices, and shrinking savings for millions of ordinary people. Tariffs may be sold as protectionist policy, but in reality, consumers are the ones who pay the price. From groceries to goods, the cost of economic brinkmanship lands squarely on the public. This isn’t economic strategy — it’s self-inflicted harm.

  26. just wait till they do the math and price it all in correctly.

    ‘ The country is gona boom’ – DJT

  29. Imagine the US government bought puts options.. they would have repaid quite a lot of deficit…

  30. *10 trillion in imaginary money
    Because no way In hack 10 trillion of real money would have this little effects on everything

  31. When is it too far for the republicans who can literally stop trump?

  32. Alot of people seem to be too stupid to understand what GDP actually is.

  34. How many brokers have gone under? How many margin calls have been made? How many banks had to be bailed out? How much extra cash was injected into the market or the collapsing giants? It’s funny how little you all know about this crap that is called the U.S. stock market, yes all you see these days is theater

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