You voted, we delivered — and barely slept. The market is TARIFF-IED! 🙃 

In this episode, we interrupt our regularly scheduled Fed deep dive to break down the 2025 Trump tariffs shock and what it means for your portfolio. It's a tug-of-trade-war and self-directed investors shouldn't try to time the markets, but should be informed, prepared, and diversified. 

You’ll learn what tariffs are, how these sweeping new tariffs are fueling inflation and shaking up the job market while putting the Fed in an impossible bind. We’ll walk you through the ripple effects on the U.S. dollar, Treasury yields, and how investors are rethinking their strategy in real time. Plus, we dig into what history teaches us about past trade wars — from the Smoot-Hawley Depression era to the 2018 showdown with China — and how those lessons apply now. History is echoing...

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