Personal Finance and Investing

on all countries with the idea of "onshoring" manufacturing and then hours later pre-market retracting said tariffs has little to do with bringing back these businesses back to the US.

In fact it actually creates great uncertainity for business (unless they have been been informed of the short-term intent). No business would commit to necessary capex multi-year spending that would be necessary to actually bring those businesses back to the US.

The obvious results of these actions would be massive inflation on products. But I am beginning to think it is simply a transactional move deliberately done to allow those with insider information to capitalize.

Since the vast majority of the market is controlled by hedge funds and institutional investors it presents a obvious risk for people like myself who depend on market stability for my retirement.

It seems obvious that this mess is concerning internationally because the normal inverse relationship between equities and bonds was just the opposite last week with both equities and bonds being sold.

I wonder if the SEC is even concerned or do they just look the other way under this administration.

Bottom line - I do not trust this administration to do anything ethically when it comes to financial transactions. Maybe my TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) has caused this paranoia.