The Trump Trade: Market Volatility, Now 100% Guaranteed!

Ah, the stock market. A bastion of calm, predictable growth, right? Wrong. Not when Donald J. Trump is in the news cycle, apparently. Fresh off a weekend of pronouncements from the digital pulpit of Truth Social, the markets are once again performing their favorite dance: the “Trump Tango,” a two-step of soaring rhetoric followed by a dizzying dip in valuations. It appears the former (and potentially future) President has rediscovered his favorite economic lever: the tariff. And this time, he’s gone all in, ...