> it's the uncertainty

Worse, it's not even "honest" uncertainty, the people in charge of the policies are profiting from keeping everyone else uncertain.

Not only in the crass sense of insider-trading or market-manipulation, but also in terms of the landscape it creates.

For example, look at Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. While he goes on TV as the administration's tariff-mouthpiece, in the background, his family company [0] is going to US companies and saying: "Wow, those tariff-taxes suck, right? How about we give you a little money to keep you afloat today if you agree to give us any money the government might end up owing you back for illegal tariffs?"

It's hard to see how this will change until Republican federal legislators decide they no longer want to be accomplices [1] to the Executive branch's high crimes and misdemeanors.

[0] Cantor Fitzgerald, Lutnick owned ~50% and was CEO for decades before giving it to his sons.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-tariff...

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jacquesm a day ago | parent [-]

In a functioning society these people would be in jail. It is worse than the worst cases of insider trading and yet they are just sitting there gleefully counting their money. Utterly disgusting, traitors to their own country.

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Eextra953 a day ago | parent [-]

Speaks to the disconnect between our representatives and the people they represent so many of these policies are extremely unpopular and yet they still get pushed through to terrible effect. I don't understand why 'we' can't hold them accountable. Is it due to lack of education in what is happening? A lack of understanding in our political system? Is the populate just completely disconnected?

	▲	Terr_ a day ago \| parent [-]
		https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-... > When the authors look only at the preferences of average citizens, it appears that they do have a pretty big effect on policy change. But when they add the preferences of economic elites and interest groups to the analysis, the impact of average citizens vanishes entirely. Basically, average citizens only get what they want if economic elites or interest groups also want it.