It's my pleasure to welcome you here to the Clark Howard Show.

You know, our mission is to serve you with advice and information that empowers you so you make better financial decisions in your life.

Today, wow, I'm going to address something that causes endless posts as the

tariffs turn. Also, 23 of me has gone bust, and there's something that I need you to do immediately

if you're one of the 15 million of us who did the 23

and me genetic testing. So this is a story that changes flavors again and again and again.

The Trump tariffs. Full disclosure, I hate tariffs. I've always hated

tariffs. In history, you look at when America's imposed tariffs in the past, the two big times

we did both led to depressions. Tariffs have a lot of negative effects.

The president sees tariffs is key to his economic strategy.

I don't understand it.

But I have to say that because anytime you hear me talk about tariffs, you hear built-in bias in me against tariffs,

just like you hear from the president the other way that tariffs are like some kind of gift

from heaven. So today I'm not going to talk specifically about why I despise tariffs. If I did that

someday, gosh, Krista already has to deal with endless Clark stinks from people who think I'm

some kind of super maga or something or ultra liberal or progressive or something.

It is unbelievable.

I mean, it's funny that people that are really political right now see everything from

a political prism and fail to respect the possibility that there could be somebody who's

an independent, which I would be libertarian except because of how I feel about military.

I don't fit truly being a libertarian, but I don't believe that any one person, any one group,

any one political party has infinite wisdom. We're humans.

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