If yesterday’s five-minute relief rally taught analysts one thing, it’s that traders are keen to jump on the optimistic bandwagon when it comes to Iran. After weeks of volatile trade, yesterday Wall Street celebrated after President Trump indicated he was working toward a “complete and total” resolution of hostilities with Iran.
There’s one small issue: While Trump said there was “productive” conversations with Iranian leaders, Tehran reportedly maintained that “no dialogue” has occurred between the two nations. There are talks between intermediaries in Riyadh, but it’s not clear how far along they are, or how willing either side is to compromise.
Wall Street, however, has adopted a new behavioural trait since Trump returned to office: Investors are reacting (justifiably or not) to social media posts from the Oval Office without much verifiable evidence to go on.
https://fortune.com/2026/03/24/wall-street-bewitched-positive-headlines-iran-less-active-negative-evidence/
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This is late stage rentierism. We can only fail up the upper class so far, at this point our financial markets are on the cusp of decoupling from reality. It is mostly various forms of pump and dump and insider info, that are slurping up the last bits of lower class wealth and opportunities. I think climate change will make this the year reality flexes and says no more growth for you, and all cooperation starts to come down to our ability to coordinate democratically and or privately with increasing violence.