BREAKING: The Trump administration is offering $17.5 billion in low-cost loans to help finance the construction of 10 new Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors across the U.S.
🚨 SOUTH KOREA JUST PROPOSED TAXING UNREALIZED GAINS.
And this is one of the major reasons behind today's massive selloff in the Korean market, now being called BLACK TUESDAY in Korea.
At a forum hosted by South Korea's ruling Democratic Party, lawmakers called for comprehensive taxation that would treat unrealized gains on stocks and real estate as taxable income, even before the asset is ever sold.
The ruling party has pushed escalating wealth tax measures throughout 2026, including a February forum proposing to lower the real estate capital gains exemption threshold from 1.2 billion won to 800 million won, and an April push to abolish the long term holding tax deduction entirely.
Today is the first time this campaign has explicitly extended to taxing unrealized stock gains.
Under current law, investors are taxed only when they sell a stock and realize a profit.
Under this proposal, investors could owe tax on paper gains they have not sold or collected, simply for holding a stock that went up in value.
The Netherlands tried almost this exact policy four months ago.
On February 12, 2026, Dutch lawmakers passed a law taxing unrealized gains on stocks, bonds, and crypto at a flat 36% every year, whether or not anything was sold.
The backlash was immediate. A petition against it gathered more than 61,000 signatures, and Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke called it "the dumbest thing any government on planet earth is pursuing right now."
Just 13 days after the bill passed, the Dutch finance minister announced the government would scrap the unrealized gains portion entirely, admitting the law "cannot pass as is."
This lands directly on a South Korean market that just ran up nearly 95% over the past year, built largely on heavy retail buying with borrowed money.
A tax on gains that exist only on paper is a direct threat to the exact rally that created that exposure in the first place.
All these dumbass women with their professions and credentials in their instagram bios lmao, they’ve got me keking! Serves me right for goin on the gram to mire
$TSM Two types of idiots today.
Idiot 1: Believes China will invade Taiwan.
Idiot 2: Has no idea the world literally cannot function without TSMC.
SK Hynix, $MU, $AMD, $ARM, $NVDA, $QCOM, $AVGO and even its foundry competitors $INTC and Samsung all depend on TSMC's advanced nodes for cutting edge silicon and logic.
There is no version of reality in which China invades Taiwan to sabotage the entire global semi & AI economy, including their own, just to make 100 enemies at once. Especially under United State's watch.
I've spoken. $DRAM
One thing Trump was genuinely innovative about was when he realized that if you build something fast enough people won’t be able to knock it down.
There is a lesson there for everyone else.
One based thing about the Founding Fathers is they would larp as much as they wanted. Yes we are the New Israel and also Rome and also the true England what are you going do about it cry
Boomerslop.
"Ha ha gender studies students are lazy ha ha give me fries with that"
No they become professional activists and dedicate their lives to destroying your life and have 10X your commitment to winning politically.
$INTC appointed former SK Hynix CEO Seok-Hee Lee as Executive Vice President of Intel Foundry.
The hire adds more foundry leadership depth as Intel tries to scale its contract chip manufacturing business and compete more directly with $TSM and Samsung.
Tim Cook says $AAPL will raise prices as surging AI-driven memory & storage costs from $MU, Samsung & SK Hynix make absorbing the increases “unsustainable.”
Cook called chip shortage “a hundred-year flood” & said price hikes could hit Macs and iPads before the iPhone 18 launch.
$INTC equity agreement was the start of USG taking stake in the entire US-based AI supply chain. I will not be surprised if USG takes stake in Open AI and/or Anthropic. And I will not be surprised if all of the firms that USG invested in will work with $INTC IFS to fab the chips that they designed or are going to design, including OpenAI and Anthropic