Absolutely yes.
Safer with the border finally under control
Safer with the proactive measures removing gang member and illegal aliens.
Financially my day to day has not changed, eggs are lower, groceries seem the same. Basic necessities of life have not changed.
I don’t judge my 401k because it changes day to day and I have been through a number of volatile markets. This being one of them.
Bring middle class we benefited really well with the last tax cuts and I can hardly wait to see the next ones.
Common sense has returned,
Being Catholic, being involved with social justice ministries, having hired Hispanic contractors and encountered them as nurses, lab technicians, restaurant workers, etc. in the community, my impression of immigrants is overwhelmingly positive. I have Hispanic friends, and my children have had Hispanic friends and classmates. I have never seen these heavily promoted "Hispanic gangs," but I went to the protest last Saturday and we needed police protection because the Proud Boys kept driving by shouting and harassing us.
When we cheer on a government that treats people as sub-human, sending them to virtual concentration camps in El Salvador without due process, we become a little less human ourselves. We lose the best part of ourselves, and I cannot participate in these heinously sinful deportations.
I would say costs are rising--homeowners' insurance, meat.
During the pandemic, a global disaster caused a market downtown. We saw the world working together to develop vaccines and treatments--with a few obvious exceptions in our country. But this is a unique incident, orchestrated by a leader who is trying to seize absolute power and employing economic policies that are universally condemned by economists and which, in 1930, caused a ten year depression that took a World War to get out of. He has shown himself to be adverse to listening to wiser voices, erratic and impulsive, unconcerned with the suffering of Americans and people around the globe.
So while I could "predict" that stocks would recover because the best minds the world over were working for solutions, we have what is basically an egotistical misadventure from someone who believes he is the ultimate authority.
We can't have confidence and trust. My only hope is that someone who thrives on adulation will relent when the anger of the people reaches a fever pitch. I estimate that will happen by June, and if it doesn't work, we are in big trouble.
I was still working when the 2017 tax cuts went into effect. The year I retired, several things happened that changed our fortunes for the better.
As far as common sense goes, when the federal workforce is being attacked by an AI meat cleaver wielded by teenage and Gen Z computer geeks; when TV personalities run the cabinet instead of people with expert qualifications; when the Cabinet member in charge of the CDC sees an eradicated disease reappear, causing two deaths and infecting hundreds of unvaccinated children---and suggests "vitamin A," I don't see a brain's worth of common sense in the whole bunch.
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