How to Respond to the Current Market (FQF)

In this week's Five Question Friday (FQF), we have five excellent questions that all revolve around tariffs and the current stock market:

1. Should we heed Ray Dalio's Prediction of a Financial Heart Attack?
- https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/03/predicting-a-financial-crisis/
-https://web.archive.org/web/20240414014020/https://www.businessinsider.com/bridgewater-ray-dalio-wrong-cash-call-january-2018-2019-1
- https://www.nbc26.com/news/national/hedge-fund-billionaire-70-chance-of-recession-before-2020-election
- https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ray-dalio-bridgewater-hedge-fund-lost-12-billion-2020-2021-1-1029998262
2. How will tariffs affect interest rates?
- https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-pushes-for-lower-interest-rates-alongside-tariffs/7972678.html
- https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/jeremy-siegel-how-tariffs-could-impact-the-u-s-economy/
- https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tariffs-trade-war/
- https://www.pimco.com/us/en/insights/watching-the-fed-watching-tariffs-and-inflation
- https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fiscal-economic-and-distributional-effects-illustrative-reciprocal-us-tariffs
- https://www.morningstar.com/economy/tariffs-will-reduce-us-gdp-are-unlikely-reduce-trade-deficit
3. Why do you feel holding cash is not wise in chaotic times like this?
4. would you dollar cost average into a downturn/correction?
5. During times like this what resources do you read, watch or listen to that does not have too much "emotional" content and is based on fact?
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0:00 - Intro
1:43 - Should we heed Ray Dalio's Prediction of a Financial Heart Attack?
5:35 - How will tariffs affect interest rates?
13:18 - Why do you feel holding cash is not wise in chaotic times like this?
16:57 - Would you dollar cost average into a downturn/correction?
20:15 - During times like this what resources do you read, watch or listen to that does not have too much "emotional" content and is based on fact?

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