Trump Tweets and Wall Street Shudders! A Single Post Shakes the Credit Card Industry!
Political Signal Effect Beats Market Reality!
Visa and Mastercard Remain Structural Winners in the Payment World!
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For me, the fascinating aspect of the current credit card debate is not the economic dimension, but the political one. A single social media post from Donald Trump is now enough to visibly shake an entire industry. His Truth Social contribution, in which he called for a one-year cap of 10% on credit card interest rates starting January 20, 2026, caused a noticeable decline in the stock prices of providers and banks like American Express, Capital One, JPMorgan, Citi, Visa, and Mastercard even before the stock market opened. To me, this impressively...
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