Well, it's been a hell of a ride for the U.S. economy over the last few weeks.

I mean, this past week began with the stock market continuing its nose dive because of Donald

Trump's kind of weird obsession with putting in place tariffs based on a completely made-up formula.

Then on Wednesday, he abruptly pulled back on the most egregiously high tariffs on most countries for 90 days,

but left a 10% tariff across the board on all of them.

Then he jacked up tariffs on China to 145% before announcing an exemption for

smartphones, flat screen TVs, and semiconductors late Friday night. And then it continued to

get more confusing because just this morning his commerce secretary said this quote is not like

a permanent sort of exemption, whatever that means.

So there's a little bit of a pattern here.

He's going too far and then he's caving and it's all a little uncertain and murky.

But it's important to remember that even with all these walkbacks, prices on everything

from clothes to toys to appliances are still going to be much higher for everyone.

And in less than 90 days, Trump could have a brand new chart with a brand new fake equation,

and we could be right back at square one.

The point being that, unfortunately, we are not quite out of the woods yet with all the tariffs.

One of the things that really stuck out to me this week

was how Trump announced his reversal on tariffs,

or his semi-reversal, I should say.

It all began Wednesday morning when he issued something

of a stock tip from the White House.

In all caps, he said, quote,

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