I am sure a relatively small group of already very people who happened to be in the right place at the right time—it’s called “insider trading” for a reason—made a bunch of money off of this whole on-again/off-again tariff nonsense.

But I remain convinced that there is no grand plan to any of this, and that we do ourselves no favors by imagining that there is.

It will always be true that it is easier to destroy things than to create them, and any bunch of clowns can knock things over.