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Markets are up as tariff talk softens

Now that President Donald Trump appears ready to partially walk back his, let’s say, problematic economic policy announcements of the last few weeks, markets are clawing back some of their trillions in dollars of losses.

Still, the S&P is down 7% over the last six months — or about $35,000, the price of a car (pre-tariffs!), on a half-million-dollar pension 401(k) — because Trump remains in office for at least another three and a half years and investors around the world don’t trust his judgment quite so much as they used to.

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