How to hedge against the coming Trump economic implosion?

[Anonymous]

Trump is starting to put incompetent
ideologues in charge of reporting key economic data like unemployment statistics at the BLS. By the time Powell’s term is up next year, assuming he isn’t fired before that, Trump will put his stooges in charge of playing with the interest rates at the Fed to juice the stats. We are the slow boiling frogs in a pot but it is increasingly clear that he is going to fake economic data to make things look better than they are. Does anyone legitimately think he isn’t going to resort to printing more money as a short term band aid for the exploding deficit? We are starting to look like Argentina where the key economic data were fake for years, leading to capital flight and the economy destroyed. For years. Still is. My question is, as someone who has most of our retirement savings in the market and as equity in our DC home, what are you doing to hedge against an economic meltdown down in the US which will also disproportionately affects the real estate market in this region? Is there anything that can be done other than buying European stocks, which I’m not sure would be an effective hedge anyway? My partner is not American and he has always said that if the US sneezes the rest of the world gets a cold. He thinks we are all f’ed. Except for the super rich, especially those with inside access who are going to make out fine in the coming years. We have big college payments coming up soon and are counting on eventually being able to access the equity in our home and our stock market returns to fund our retirement in the next 10-15 years. We don’t have enough savings to pull everything out of the market right now. Maybe I am being overly dramatic but how are you adjusting your portfolio to weather the almost inevitable economic meltdown? I refuse to believe you can run the world’s largest most complex economy with this level of incompetence and fraud without eventually reaping what you sow. Never mind what will happen if all of this coincides with the implosion of the AI valuation bubble. Would love to hear how others are planning. And please don’t say crypto. Thats part of the grift. Thanks

[Anonymous]

Is there a question in there I’m not reading that without paragraphs.

[Anonymous]

Sorry. Basic question is what steps are you taking to insulate your retirement savings against a likely implosion of the US economy due to Trump’s malfeasance?

[Anonymous]

Not invest in US dollar or economy.

[Anonymous]

I pulled some money from the stock market, mostly by selling, then shorting Tesla, for the duration of this administration. Most of it is still in, because it creates dividends that pay for a lot of my nice things, but I hedge as best I can by staying a lot more liquid than I usually do.

[Anonymous]

The best thing you can do is nothing. This has been proven by numerous academic studies.

[Anonymous]

my company stock is going sky high and i am fully employed although we stopped hiring and are using ai for menial tasks, even i as an executive have to use it instead of get an assistant.

Maybe its not just trump focus investing on something else than the traditionals

[Anonymous]

Pull all of your money out of the market so I can buy more when it dips. If trump fails the democrats are back in power and will roll back all his policies and they will finally put in that wealth tax they want. Win win.

[Anonymous]

Yes you are being overly dramatic. I have 6.5 mil in the market and staying the course

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a question in there I’m not reading that without paragraphs.

Couldn't you just respond to the title of the thread if you had advice? It's pretty obvious that Trump is going to create long-term problems

[Anonymous]

I don’t know maybe read this exact thread that has arisen on these forums every few months for the last 15 years predicting a huge recession and drop in the stock market and then go look at a chart of the S&P 500 and think about what is lost by trying to time the market?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my company stock is going sky high and i am fully employed although we stopped hiring and are using ai for menial tasks, even i as an Executive have to use it instead of get an assistant.

Maybe its not just trump focus investing on something else than the traditionals

[Anonymous]

The part where you say “maybe I’m being overly dramatic?”

The answer is yes.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, it’s probably going to be bad. I researched and it seems like holding more cash and reducing purchasing is the answer, which ironically makes things worse but we’re not the billionaires and they don’t care.

[Anonymous]

We are buying a lot of gold, a lot of shelf stable food, converted our house to solar and have back up batteries, and we have some acreage that we grow food and livestock on.