This may be mere speculation, but while the housing industry is artificially inflated, much like the 2007-2008 crisis, and will eventually crash, this crisis is entirely avoidable, and it's my personal opinion this downturn was planned by Donald Trump.
Trump plays dumb a lot, but it's simply to hide malicious intent, conflate bad intentions with idiocy. No lifelong businessman would be dumb enough to not know this would be the result of the tariffs he imposes. He is bottoming out the economy to purposefully permorm insider trading-like activity and using the office of President for his own, personal financial gain.
I am sure he sold a lot of his personal investments before imposing tariffs, and is crashing the market so that he, the lone person who knows when the tariffs will be removed, and being the only person to know when the bottom is, and utilize the inevitable ensuing recovery to maximize his own profits.
My personal advice: wait a day or two and invest in recession-resistant stocks, the necessities: water & beverages, grocers, health insurance/care, and funeral services.
I wish you all luck in this difficult time.
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