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It's been a roller coaster of a month on the stock market.

At the start of April, President Trump made his big announcement that he had slapped huge new tariffs on most of the world.

That sent markets into free fall.

It was the steepest drop in share prices since the early days of the pandemic.

And then a week later, Trump announced that he would pause a lot of those tariffs for 90 days.

I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line.

They were getting yippy, you know?

They were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid.

And thus, the pause.

After this announcement, the stock market had a great day, a whatever the opposite of yippie is.

One of the highest percentage rises in one day, in fact.

From yippie to yippee! Now, that morning, Trump had posted on his social media company Truth Social.

He'd said that now was a great time to buy. And if you'd followed that advice, you could have made a lot of money.

And this got many Democratic politicians asking authorities to investigate possible insider trading.

Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke to CNN about this on Sunday.

And it's entirely appropriate to have an investigation to make sure that Donald Trump, Donald Trump's family, Donald Trump's inner circle didn't get

advanced information and trade on that information.

And you know, it's not just politicians wondering about this.

Last week, Google searches for the term insider trading spiked.

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