War Narrative May Be Wearing Thin on Wall Street; S&P Looking at 5th Straight Weekly Loss as Trump Extends Yet Another Iran Deadline

With the war in Iran still raging, modern investors have added another tool to their arsenal of market prediction devices: checking TruthSocial for Trump posts before, during, and after market hours.

This has become essential for anybody moving money in markets. Since the onset of the war, Trump's posts, tweets, or truths have become almost akin to an Orwellian Ministry of Truth, dictating the movement of the herd, hoard, boards, bean-counters, Beanie-Babies, baby daddies, ditch diggers, oil riggers, stone cutters and even some stoned corn cobblers.

It's the new AI, "Almost Insightful."

Actually, Trump's random scribblings aren't all that important for anybody with an IQ above room temperature or an investment horizon longer than 30 minutes. Most normal people (normal being a moving object these days) aren't glued to their Bloomberg or Interactive Broker monitors. The abnormal primates that inhabit lower Manhattan and otherwise undesirable portions of New Jersey are far from normal and far removed from exceptional status. They're where they are in order to do one thing: grift from the public. They exist as modern day anti-Robin Hoods, taking from anybody to give to themselves. Other than lining their pockets with OPM (other peoples money), they serve no useful purpose. They can't fix a leaky faucet, nor can they hammer a nail. Nobody in their right mind would hire them to babysit their kids.

If you are one of them, this message is for you: GFY. The world is moving past the era of financialization of everything. All due apologies to Gordon Gecko, greed is decidedly NOT good and measuring the value of people by their net worth or stock portfolio is avaricious, shameful, and churlish.

Modern people have grown tired of an existence based upon how much money they'll need to retire from a slavish employment. Under the current rubric of self-worth equating to a bank account balance, hearts and minds yearn for actual meaning, purpose, or relief from a world ruled by billionaire oligarchs seeking to identify, track, and judge every human action. "Freedom", as defined in the ballad, "Me and Bobby McGee" as just another word for nothing left to lose has once again spun up to the present as prescient. There's got to be a better way and people are increasingly seeking one.

Trump's tweets and truths become simply the overt manifestation of the politics of financial inertia, where everything and anything is defined by dollar signs of a currency rapidly losing value. A dime doesn't buy a cup of coffee and a million has become passé. High-echelon grifting has gone mainstream, leaving the huddled masses to fend for themselves in a quagmire or lies, half-truths and unabashed propaganda. There's an end to it, somewhere, and though it hasn't yet appeared, the end does seem to be closing fast.

Trump's latest missive concerning yet another ultimatum and timeline, hasn't gone over very well on Wall Street.

As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time. Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

3/26/26 4:11 pm

Stock futures are lower heading into Friday's session. With less than a half hour before the bell, Dw futures are down 217 points; NASDAQ futures are off 190, and S&P futures are lower by 36 points. This comes following a bloody session Thursday amid a disappointing week.

Through Thursday's close, the Dow still holds gains from earlier, up 382 points. The NASDAQ has done less well, down 239, and the S&P is down 29 points. Friday's trade looks vulnerable. A negative close would mark the seventh down week for the S&P in the last eight and its fifth straight week n the red.

After a while, one has to question Trump's decision-making ability and the rationale for entering into a military conflict with a nation that can actually put up a fight. A couple of weeks of negative returns might be passed off as just the usual ups and downs of the market, but five straight begins to look like a trend, a pattern. It's becoming obvious that not everybody is a drone or a garden gnome, following wistfully along the road to perdition.

At the Close, Thursday, March 26, 2026:
Dow: 45,960.11, -469.38 (-1.01%)
NASDAQ: 21,408.08, -521.75 (-2.38%)
S&P 500: 6,477.16, -114.74 (-1.74%)
NYSE Composite: 21,843.97, -283.65 (-1.28%)