The Market isn't a safe place for investments, with manipulators at the helm.
The problem with this investment environment is that we have someone willing to manipulate the market as he sees fit, whilst gutting regulatory bodies that could potentially do anything about it.
The market is going to react to Trump's social media posts, whether anything comes of them or not now. We will see huge market swings next time he posts something vague, and maybe he follows through, maybe he doesn't. Only those in his circle get the real info.
Musk, who owns Twitter, is (to a lesser extent) similarly poised to manipulate sentiment and cause run-ups or sell-offs. He's been reprimanded many times already for doing so, and now has freedom to do it.
This is corruption of the highest magnitude. We have not seen it, like this in this country before. It's possible that our economy, overall, is strong enough to weather this, but other economies that have gone through this kind of banana republic shit have all ended up completely decimated.
Up or down is not what I am looking at. I am not buying back in until there is stability.