American Consumers Are Getting Rattled by Trump’s Tariff Chaos

Trump's chaotic tariffs week

It was a week of monumental economic gyrations, as President Trump imposed tariffs on nearly every country's imports, which he then increased, then paused some, then instituted new tariffs. Wall Street stock and bond indices suffered, with trillions in value lost, and Americans' retirement and college savings accounts took a beating. Correspondent Jo Ling Kent looks back on a perilous week for companies and consumers trying to plan ahead.

The far-reaching effects of Trump’s tariffs on low-income people, explained

Wall Street may be reeling, but it’s poor and working-class people who’ll be hurt by the Trump’s trade war.

Trump's Chaos is Hitting Ordinary Americans Where it Hurts – In Their 401(k)s

A trader watches his monitors on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday 11 April 2025. Photo: Richard Drew/AP Photo/AlamyAmerica took most of us on a roller coaster ride in the last week, as the entire stock market looked like a meme stock bouncing up and down. Trump’s tariff plan was implemented, caused a massive market drop, was then repealed (except for China), causing a market rebound, followed by another drop. And while much of th…

Trump’s Tariff Machine Gets to Work – LN Radio - Liberty Nation News

By Liberty Nation Authors On this week’s edition of Liberty Nation Radio, Mark Angelides and Andrew Moran delve deep into the tariff intricacies that the Fourth Estate ignores.

Donald Trump declared America's economic independence by a massive attack on all trade. The whole world is targeted. It's war. Upon arriving at the White House,... Read more Catherine Nay: America and the world appeared first on Current Values.

«He has spent his life creating chaos, surrounding himself with chaos, so that he is the person who emerges from the chaos in charge. The winner. The guy who is up there. It is a way to end his enemies.» So someone who knows him well has portrayed Donald Trump. Barbara Res, who was vice president of the company of the now president of the United States, the Trump Organization. She worked with him at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for t…