“President Trump on Sunday denied engineering a stock market sell-off, and likened the pain of re-ordering the global economy to taking medicine for an illness,” Axios reports.
“After plunging Thursday and Friday, global markets sank even further Sunday night, threatening one of the worst three-day routs in history.
”“Investors who spent all weekend hoping for some kind of policy reversal on tariffs realized that none was coming, and sold off across asset classes in earnest.”
Said Trump: “I don’t want anything to go down. But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,”