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📉 Trump Vs Canada
Pip Munch
January 26, 2026
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☕️ GM Munchers! I told my wife shovelling would be a "fun couple's activity" this weekend. She laughed so hard she pulled a muscle. I pulled my back doing it solo. We're both injured now.
On today’s menu:
📉 Trump Threatens Canada, Silver Hits $103
😬 Intel's 17.5% Nosedive
🥶 10,000+ Flights Cancelled
❌ Amazon’s Firing Thousands
🙄 Government Shut Down Next Week? 78% Chance.
Friday’s numbers:
S&P 500 | 6,915 | +0.03% |
Nasdaq | 23,501 | +0.28% |
Dow Jones | 49,098 | -0.58% |
Bitcoin | $89,300 | -0.21% |
BREAKING NEWS
📉 Trump's 100% Tariff Threat
Trump dropped a Saturday bomb: if Canada strikes a trade deal with China, he'll slap a 100% tariff on Canadian goods entering the US. Not 10%. Not 25%. One hundred percent—the nuclear option of trade policy.
Here's the twist: Canada's traditional bargaining chip has been their oil exports. But with the US seizing Venezuela and its oil reserves, that leverage just evaporated faster than my trading discipline during a meme stock rally.
Just a week ago, Trump told reporters Canada's China deal was "a good thing" and they "should do that." Now? Complete reversal. Classic TACO trade whiplash—though this time, the threat feels different with Venezuela in play.
Canada's predicament: Their household debt just hit $3.21 trillion while their entire economy is $3.09 trillion. That's right—Canadian household debt is bigger than their GDP. When your debt-to-economy ratio looks like a leveraged trader's nightmare, you don't have much room to negotiate.
The Munch Take: We still believe in the TACO trade (Trump Always Chickens Out), but watch USDCAD at market open—it could get violent. We expect a weaker Canadian dollar as markets price in economic coercion from both sides. Canada's caught between China's manufacturing muscle and America's energy dominance. Neither position looks good. If you're trading CAD pairs, tighten those stops.
🚀 Silver Hits $103: The Fiat Funeral Accelerates
Silver just smashed through $103/oz for the first time in history. Gold's still flirting with $5,000, teasing the legendary level like a stock that gaps up but won't break resistance.
The bigger picture: Silver's now up over 35% in 2026. We're three weeks into the year. Gold's up over 13%. These aren't normal market moves—this is capital screaming "we don't trust paper currency anymore" at decibel levels that should concern anyone holding pure cash.
The Munch Take: This is what we've been preaching from day one—you need to hold assets or you're getting left behind. Cash loses purchasing power every single year. If you're still 100% cash waiting for the "perfect" entry, you've already lost 34% in silver terms and 13% in gold terms this year alone. Own hard assets. The trend is screaming. Listen.
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STOCKS
😬 Intel's 17.5% Nosedive: When Beating Earnings Means Nothing
Intel absolutely cratered 17.5% on Friday—its worst day since August 2024. This wasn't a miss. Intel actually beat Q4 earnings. So what went wrong?
The guidance disaster: CEO Lip-Bu Tan admitted on Thursday's earnings call that Intel can't meet full demand for its products.
Translation? We're selling everything we make, but we can't make enough, and what we're making isn't profitable enough.
The brutal math: Over the past year, Intel rallied more than double on turnaround hopes fueled by investments from the US government, SoftBank, and Nvidia. Friday's 17.5% bloodbath erased months of optimism in a single session.
The Munch Take: Beating earnings doesn't save you when your forward outlook looks like a dumpster fire. The turnaround story just got pushed to 2028, which in tech years might as well be the heat death of the universe. Our condolences to the people holding the stock.
MARKET OVERVIEW
🍿 Tasty Movers & Shakers
❌ $AMZN Amazon's reportedly axing thousands more corporate jobs next week. Nothing says "innovation" quite like systematically dismantling your workforce while Bezos adds another yacht. If you're holding Amazon long-term, this cost-cutting could juice margins. Short-term? Expect volatility when layoff announcements hit.
🚗 $TSLA Prediction markets give Elon a 67% chance of becoming a trillionaire in 2026 after Tesla released "unsupervised" Full Self-Driving in Robotaxis. Your car drives itself while you nap, scroll Twitter, or—in my case—finally get peace instead of listening to my wife's sister drama. If that costs $100/month, I'm buying it immediately. Worth every penny for the silence.
📱 $AAPL Speculation swirled that Tim Cook would step down this year. Fair—the guy hasn't innovated since the iPhone became a fancy calculator, just with a better camera every year. But fresh reports killed the rumors, and prediction odds collapsed from 50% to 25%. We're stuck with iterative updates for another year. Revolutionary? No. Profitable? Absolutely.
👀 $AVGO Cathie Wood just bought another 49,048 Broadcom shares through Ark Invest. Either she knows something we don't, or she's doubling down on AI semiconductors while everyone panics. Her track record is polarizing, but when she buys dips this aggressively, it's worth watching—even if just to fade later.
STOCKKS
👨✈️ 10,000+ Flights Cancelled: Winter Storm Nukes Airlines
Over 10,000 US flights were canceled this weekend as a massive winter storm pummeled the country. Saturday saw 3,500 cancellations. Sunday? Over 7,000.
The damage:
LaGuardia (NYC): 80% of Sunday flights canceled
Reagan National (DC): 90% canceled
Newark & JFK: 50% canceled
American Airlines axed 902 flights (30% of mainline schedule). Southwest canceled 571 (19%). Delta, JetBlue, United—everyone got wrecked.
The Munch Take: Monday's market open could be brutal for airline stocks. If you're holding $AAL, $DAL, $LUV, or $UAL, brace for weakness at open. Weather events are temporary, but Q1 earnings just took a hit that won't show up until April—and markets price that in today.
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