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The Securitization of the "America First" Agenda

Episode 225 of the Investopedia Express Podcast with Caleb Silver (February 10, 2025)

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Investors are preparing for more political chaos in the tariff war last week, which has put people in trouble, bringing the dollar higher and gold to record levels. In this week’s Investopedia Express collection, we explore why the strong dollar pinches corporate profits within the world’s largest companies and how they think about it. Additionally, President Trump’s holding company has just announced registrations for new ETFs and SMAs that track their “America First” agenda. Despite conflicts of interest and government administrations have always maintained a comfortable relationship, we have never seen this securitization of U.S. policy. And, a new tax proposal is about to strike Congress, that the real struggle in the future of the U.S. fiscal is about to become interesting, including the potential to close the interest loopholes carried.

Show links to comments:

• https://russellinvestments.com/us/blog/us-tariffs-potential-implications
• https://www.imf.org/en/publications/weo/issues/2025/01/01/17/world-economic-ecomonic-unlook-update-update-update-january-2025
• https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/02/02/06/3022027/0/en/trump-media-register-registers-registers-registers-trademarks-for-truth-tr uth-for- truth-fi–fi-investment-vehicles.html
• https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/carriedinterest.asp
• https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2463/text
• https://www.investopedia.com/these-two-assets-will-have-the-best-best-returns-under-trump-per-per-per-per-investopedia-s readers-8787190
• https://www.investopedia.com/what-to-expect-in-the-markets-this-this-8786864