Markets have been beaten up to start 2025, especially as it relates to tariffs and government spending cuts, pronouncements from both the president himself as well as his various cabinet members are moving markets. What we have experienced has been unpredictable and violent, like the financial version of a bar-room brawl.

Markets have been beaten up to start 2025, especially as it relates to tariffs and government spending cuts, pronouncements from both the president himself as well as his various cabinet members are moving markets. What we have experienced has been unpredictable and violent, like the financial version of a bar-room brawl.

In a case of almost perfect irony, I have waited a long time to use this theme. However, with Google’s AI Overview informing me ”the play’s tone is absurdist and nihilistic,” it seemed appropriate at this point in the market and election cycle.

In a case of almost perfect irony, I have waited a long time to use this theme. However, with Google’s AI Overview informing me ”the play’s tone is absurdist and nihilistic,” it seemed appropriate at this point in the market and election cycle.

In a case of almost perfect irony, I have waited a long time to use this theme. However, with Google’s AI Overview informing me ”the play’s tone is absurdist and nihilistic,” it seemed appropriate at this point in the market and election cycle.

As we reach the midpoint of summer, the only thing rising faster than the thermometer has been the VIX, a widely followed measure of market volatility.