The Trump Market: Where Chaos Meets a Collective Shrug
Ah, the stock market. A bastion of logic, predictability, and calm, right? Not when former President Donald J. Trump is in the news. In a week that saw fresh rounds of tariff announcements, geopolitical saber-rattling, and a particularly pointed social media directive, one might expect Wall Street to be performing its usual impersonation of a fainting goat. Yet, as ever, the market’s reaction to the latest Trumpian pronouncements has been less a scream of terror and more a collective, albeit slightly bewild ...