What's up, guys, emergency pod. Today we're talking about the Trump tariffs. We're going to be discussing

what the heck's going on, how it's going to impact you in the short to midterm future, your business,

your wallet, your bank account, all of the above. And then we're also going to describe and discuss

three ways that you can bulletproof your bank account, bulletproof your financials for a potential looming

recession so that we can get it through this shop and make it through the other side profitable

with hopefully more assets than we began it. First of foremost, let me preface this podcast with

I am not a political podcast and nor do I want to be a macroeconomic podcast. There are other

podcasts for it that do it better than me that are better informed, better educated, and frankly,

I just don't want to talk about it because my jam is I enjoy controlling what's within our

control, which is going to be the topic of today's podcast. But I believe that it is good to at least discuss

what is happening for everybody that's listening to this as maybe in corporate or perhaps

not in business yet. And you see the headlines, you see the news, but you're not quite

understanding what's going on. I can explain at a very high level what's going on and what the

intention is and what we can

potentially expect here in the short term, which all leads back to the true core and nature

of today's podcast episode, which is three ways that we can bulletproof our portfolios

regardless, which is again directly within our control. So first things first, tariffs, what's going on? How do they impact us?

Why is he doing it? So first off, Trump, whether you like him, you don't like him, whether you voted

for him or didn't vote for him. He's been talking about tariffs his entire campaign. So we knew

tariffs were going to be coming regardless. So I don't understand why people are acting shocked

and surprised that he is following through with what he said, which was tariffs. He literally said, my favorite word is tariffs.

Trump's entire premise here is that the U.S. is not positioned favorably in global economic trade to where China and other countries are putting large tariffs on the import of U.S. manufactured goods,

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