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Since my birthday, I’ve been busy with my job and other categories that don’t involve my creativity. Two days after my birthday, President Trump announced the Tariffs on Liberation Day<\/em>. I think about 99.9% of us, myself included, lost money in the stock market and retirement. As of Wednesday, 10 April 2025, while I was on my way to work, Trump announced a 90-day pause, and the stock market went up. I intended to write a finance\/investing post this weekend, discussing my strategy on investing during these tariffs. But things changed quickly here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I will primarily be throwing money in mostly ETFs for my investing. I made a couple of purchases during this tariff scare, and as of now, AT&T has dropped in some value, so I will start throwing money at them. In protest, I sold my stake in BTI (British American Tobacco). According to a few sources and OpenSecrets.com, BTI gave $10 million to the Make America Great Again Fund. Plus, my BTI stock was green, and I got good dividends from that company. I got my profit from that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that’s my finance talk for this blog post. I’m not sure what the fuck is going to happen next. We’ve had much going on in the past four or five months. The Drone Situation late last year, the California Wildfires, Federal Government cuts, and more. But going back to the tariff situation and seeing little done by Congress, I’ve lost more confidence and morale for the federal government. I have said for years that the government is very unreliable. It’s one of the reasons why I save and invest, besides my lessons learned in 2007\/2008<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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