Will Bowers

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[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Why would Trump help Russia 2.5 weeks before a major US election?

What is he getting in return?

[Dylan Ratigan @DylanRatigan]

The Catastrophic Corruption of the Trump Tariffs

Imagine the government adds $100 to the price of something you buy in the name of creating more jobs in America.

You pay the extra $100.

Later, the Supreme Court rules that the government never had the authority to impose the charge. No jobs were created and everyone is $100 poorer.

You would assume at the very least that you get your $100 back.

You don’t.

The company that collected the $100 gets to keep it and they can even take some of their ill-gotten profits and donate it to the government to support more policies exactly like this .

Making matters more despicable, imagine that while the legality of that $100 charge is still being fought in court, the family firm of a US cabinet official out promoting the policy he knows is illegal -- at the same time begins exploring whether he can buy the rights to those future refunds when it is in fact fpound to bve illegal.

That’s what happened with Donald Trump’s tariffs.

In April 2025, Trump announced sweeping tariffs designed to protect American workers and rebuild American manufacturing.

One of their most aggressive advocates was Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Before joining the administration, Lutnick spent nearly thirty years running Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm that made him a billionaire. When he entered government, leadership passed to his sons.

While Lutnick was publicly advocating Trump’s tariffs, Cantor was reportedly exploring buying the rights to potential tariff refunds from companies collecting them from you.

The tariffs were already facing serious legal challenges. Everyone involved knew there was a possibility that the courts could rule that the President lacked the authority to impose them.

A cabinet secretary was helping promote a massive illegal government policy while the financial firm he had spent his career building, now run by his sons, explored how to profit when that same policy was subsequently declared unlawful.

Cantor and Lutnick say it did not execute these trades, and reporting about whether transactions occurred has conflicted.

Here is the circularity.

The tariff was sold politically as protection for the American worker.

The tariff cost was paid by you, the American consumers.

And when the government was ordered to return the money, legal refund went to the company that took your money not you who paid it.

Meanwhile, the Cabinet Secretary the most aggressive promoter of the illegal tariffs was exploring creating contracts to turn those refunds of YOUR MONEY into huge personal profits.

And last but not least the companies that kept the refunds are then able to fund the Trump government via crypto purchase of TrumpCoin, subscriptions to advance previews of Trump policy announcements and donations to the polical party and its pet projects, like the ballroom.

So follow the money.

The worker supplied the justification. The consumer he cost. The corporation held the refund claim. The corporations may have sold that claim to the Trump Cabinet member who most aggressively pushed the tariffs and your money flows back to the people making these policies. Meanwhile manufacturing jobs stay in Mexico and China..

The is one of the most outrageous scams I have ever witnessed.

That people so close to the creation and promotion of government policy were anywhere near the opportunity to profit from the known possibility that the policy itself would be overturned.

And remember why the tariffs were politically possible in the first place.

For decades, American workers watched corporations benefit enormously from globalization while factories disappeared and manufacturing communities deteriorated. Trump promised those people that government was finally going to protect them.

Instead, they found themselves at the losing end of another financial transaction sold as a way to help them.

The worker was promised protection.

The consumer paid.

The corporation got the refund.

And people close to the government tried to profit from it.

That is the catastrophic corruption of the Trump tariffs.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: President Trump says he has cancelled the US attack on Iran and that the “perimeters of a deal” have been agreed to.

Trump says this deal will include “a total reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.”

[Will Bowers @_WillBowers]

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[Cem Karsan 🥐 @jam_croissant]

🥐RUMBS 👇

With $APLS being taken out overnight for a $ñ150% premium…

Soleno Therapeutics $SLNO should be next…

They’ve already penetrated >1.25k of the 10k patients in the US & should 2x that in the next year…

That would be $6-8/share in FCF!!

And W/ $500 mil in 💰, that’san enterprise value of only $23/share.

The ultimate annual opportunity is 5k-7k patients 👇.

& the ONLY competitor was a competing drug from Aardvark [$AARD] which was halted for safety…leaving $SLNO as the ONLY 💊 option.

It’s just a ❓ of how quickly theyre going to ramp to $16/share in FCF.

It may be the cheapest stock in the whole market w/ M&A in the sector 🔥 up…

(*Not investment advice- Donyour own research…I own the stock 🤑)

[Will Bowers @_WillBowers]

@EconstratPB Did you check out La Manzanilla?

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Tariffs not only impose immense economic costs but also fail to achieve their primary policy aims and foster political dysfunction along the way.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

It’s important that you understand what happened last night.

Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue.

In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired.

CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.”

In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump.

But censorship always backfires.

Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.

[Dow @mark_dow]

@AutismCapital Trump’s spent a lifetime leaving a trail of exactly this type of grift and half of America was either too dumb to figure it out or too craven to call it out. Including you. And you didn't wake up to it until he hurt your market for beanie babies.

[Will Bowers @_WillBowers]

Announcing the first annual Netflix Peace Prize…..
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[Reuters Business @ReutersBiz]

President Trump said that he would have a say whether a proposed merger between Netflix and Warner Brothers should go forward, telling reporters the market share of a combined entity could raise concerns. More here: https://t.co/qQtGZ1DAjn

[Will Bowers @_WillBowers]

https://t.co/l8jxzbKnc5

[Will Bowers @_WillBowers]

@jam_croissant @YouTube 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[Will Bowers @_WillBowers]

https://t.co/bsKZ5Axv6J

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
https://t.co/RQW7qAIjj3

[Will Bowers @_WillBowers]

@AJEnglish

[Arkansas Men’s Basketball 🐗 @RazorbackMBB]

Dunk contestant #4
Billy Richmond

[Will Bowers @_WillBowers]

This unnaturally tan heroin addict is our health expert?

[Will Bowers @_WillBowers]

@Telcel is such a terrible company they can’t even connect to their own network to accept my payment.

[Henry Madison @RageSheen]

I often Tweet about the 1970s being a pivotal time in the reversing of the public gains of the we-based society, post-WW2. The period 1950-late-1970s, when ‘the public’ was the dominating principle of governance. Rebuilding broken societies.

Housing no exception.

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[Will Bowers @_WillBowers]

Found a group photo of all the remaining free market republicans