Handling Volatile Markets

Looking back, I realize that I started talking in these pages about some degree of correction and volatility in markets caused by the possibility of a recession, or at least the fear of one, five weeks ago. I don’t, however, claim that that makes me a genius. In fact, I would say that you would have to be pretty dumb not to have seen this coming. Whatever you may think of him, Donald Trump is somebody who very often does what he has said he will do, and he never stopped saying on the campaign trail that he would impose tariffs on America’s…