{"id":58282,"date":"2025-04-02T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58282"},"modified":"2025-04-02T00:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T00:00:23","slug":"weary-of-watching-funds-fly-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58282","title":{"rendered":"Weary of watching funds fly away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I don’t know about you but I am getting quite tired — and frightened — of the prospect of presidential policies taking away the money I worked hard to aquire for my retirement years.<\/p>\n

That’s what Donald J. Trump is doing with his godforsaken decision to impose tariffs on virtually all items this nation imports from around the world.<\/p>\n

He has launched trade wars against our strongest allies and trading partners, contending we’ve been getting “ripped off” by nations such as, oh, Canada and Mexico. What an absolute crock of sh**! Dude can’t, or won’t, explain why the tariffs only harm Americans’ buying power. Inflation figures to fly into the stratosphere. And didn’t this dipsh** negotiate the deal with Canada and Mexico that he described at the time as the greatest trade deal in human history?<\/p>\n

The tariffs don’t impact the exporters of those goods. They do have a direct impact on those of us who rely on imported goods.<\/p>\n

The uncertainty is causing investors in funds — such as yours and my retirement accounts — to sell those funds, causing them to tank in value.<\/p>\n

My retirement fund isn’t huge. However, today there’s a good bit less of it than there was before Trump took office.<\/p>\n

The liar in chief persuaded Americans that the economy was tanking under President Biden’s leadership. In fact, it was as strong as it’s ever been. Joe Biden rescued an economy in free fall after the COVID pandemic in 2021. My retirement fund — and likely yours, too — climbed into the heavens during the past four years.<\/p>\n

These days? I’m sweatin’ bullets, man.<\/p>\n

And I don’t like it.<\/p>\n\n

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I don’t know about you but I am getting quite tired — and frightened — of the prospect of presidential policies taking away the money I worked hard to aquire for my retirement years. That’s what Donald J. Trump is doing with his godforsaken decision to impose tariffs on virtually all items this nation imports … Continue reading Weary of watching funds fly away<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7910],"tags":[1515,10440,7624,5153],"class_list":["post-58282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-news","tag-economy","tag-retirement-account","tag-tariffs","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58285,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58282\/revisions\/58285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}