And despite all the naysayers, they’ve proven to be quite effective. Now, last week, we saw the government of Panama agree to end all contracts with China at the Panama Canal. I mean, this comes just weeks after Trump vowed to take back control of this vital waterway, which has been under heavy Chinese influence of light. So a massive win there. Then we saw Trump pull out of one of his… He pulled out one of his favorite negotiating tools. And you know what they are, the big T, right? Tariffs. First, with the idiot Marxist Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who initially refused to allow two U.S.

planes filled with illegals to land in his country, even though they were his own citizens, Trump threatened massive retaliatory tariff measures that would go up exponentially every week, unless Colombia agreed to allow us to return their own citizens who were in our nation illegally. And literally just an hour after Trump made that announcement, they completely caved and gave in to the demands. Another win. Next, Trump set his sights on securing our northern and southern borders. So he threatened tariffs against Mexico and Canada as leverage to stop the flow of illegal drugs coming in across both borders.

Now, as soon as he announced this, you heard the media and they went into a tailspin. They claimed this would crash our economy and start a costly trade war and cause food prices to soar. We even saw the aroused. The aroused Chuck Schumer issued a dire warning to Americans about the looming Super Bowl catastrophe that would surely result from these tariffs. Check this out. Let’s just take Super Bowl Sunday. OK, it’s going to affect beer. OK, most of it, Corona here comes from Mexico. It’s going to affect your guac because what is guacamole made of? Avocados, both from Mexico.

It’s all just so unbelievable. While our president is taking decisive action to secure our border and stop the flow of drugs into our nation, drugs that have claimed the lives of over 100,000 Americans a year for the last four years, instead of supporting the president in his effort, Chuck Schumer, this scumbag weighs around an avocado and beer in an embarrassing attempt to try to sway the American people. Meanwhile, while the left was doing their best to create a narrative about the great avocado crisis of 2025, Trump remains steadfast. He told Canada, Mexico, China that terrorists would go into effect on Tuesday and realizing Trump wasn’t bluffing about the 25 percent tariffs on goods entering through Mexico.

Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum folded. She agreed to send 10,000 troops to be stationed on her side of the border to stop all drugs from crossing into the United States, automatically saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Then hours later, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, soy boy himself, he caves to Trump’s demands. Sending this tweet, he says, I just had a great call with President Trump. Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan. We’ll have new choppers, increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl. Yay. Trudeau also agreed to send 10,000 frontline personnel to protect his side of the border.

He even agreed to appoint a fentanyl czar and list cartels as terrorists. All together, four major wins over the last couple of weeks, Panama, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, and most of these were a direct result of Trump wielding his favorite economic weapon, the terror. However, there’s still uncertainty regarding how things will shake out with China and also the EU, which Trump has hinted could be next in line to face his tariffs. Many economists say these tariffs, especially the ones with China, will cause a stock market crash, higher interest rates, and perhaps higher inflation. While Trump says his critics don’t understand tariffs, here’s what he said.

The word tariff is a very misunderstood word. You’ve heard me say, I say it kiddingly, but it’s one of the most beautiful words in the dictionary. It really is. So which is it? Is Trump starting a trade war that’ll crash the economy and cause our beloved avocados and corona beer prices to soar? Or will tariffs make us very rich, like Trump says they will? Could they be one of the keys that unlocks the prosperity of America’s new golden age? What’s really going on here? Well, my guest today is a leading expert on the stock market and has made a career out of separating fact from fiction when it comes to what’s really happening in the economy and the market.

His name is Mark Wilbur and a great friend to this channel. And I love talking to Mark because I feel like I get a sneak peek about what’s about to happen in the market every time I talk to him. We actually had Mark on a couple of months before Trump won the election. And he said to keep an eye on the energy sector. He even shared a couple of specific energy stocks on a free training he did for our Turley Talks listeners. And those stocks, each one of them went up over 100 percent after that. It was frankly a little eerie.

And by the way, Mark’s agreed to do another one of his free trainings for our listeners. It’s live this Tuesday at 4 p.m. Eastern. It’s called the Golden Age Summit. It’s online so you can enjoy it from the comfort of your own couch. And it’s going to show our Turley Talks listeners how to profit from all of these changes that are happening under this new administration, including these tariffs. It’s free. I plan to be there because frankly, you know, I want to profit just like you. So click on that link below or scan the QR code and get registered.

But before we get into all that, Mark, welcome back, my friend. Great to see you as always. It’s great to be here with you guys, Steve. We so appreciate this channel. We so appreciate everything you’ve done for this country. It’s it’s awesome to be involved with a good real right back at you, my friend. And thank you for everything you’re doing. You know, I’m curious to hear your thoughts on on tariffs as someone who’s actively trading the markets. What in your mind, what is really going on here? Well, like Trump said, a lot of people don’t understand how tariffs work.

I’ve done a lot of research on these in the past, especially since Trump’s first term. But they’re great economic tools people can use to make deals for their country. And I know you’ve educated your listeners on it, but there’s those three Rs. If you’ll remember that tariffs are good for which is revenue restrictions and reciprocity. But like you’ve mentioned, they haven’t really been used the last four years. In fact, we haven’t used them since the 2000s, except when Trump did for some still in his first term. Right. And so this globalist agenda has come in through Biden and Obama, that Trump is now throwing out the window in favor of putting America first.

And because of that, the markets not seeing this tool used as Trump has has had some shaking going on. We had this initial shock and drop Monday. It actually started Friday when there was a leak. He might put them out Monday. The markets dropped. But as soon as Mexico caved and as soon as Canada came to the table, the market shot right back up. And so they’re seeing the success that’s given America. And I think that’s given the market hope. The big thing here is how is it going to work with China and the EU? That’s what we’re going to have to wait and see.

There’s still uncertainty, like you mentioned earlier. And Trump has even said we might see some short term pain. But long term success with it, which is part of putting your economic house in order. If I want to save money, I’m not going to go eat out as much. That’s going to hurt in the short term, but it’s better for the pocketbook in the long term. And I think that’s Trump’s game plan. He’s not trying to get America fiscally financially undo 20, 30 years of terrible decisions immediately. Right. He knows it’s going to take a little time.

And that’s the game plan. Right. Right. Got it. That’s that’s cool. That was that was very helpful. So as someone who’s actively trading in the stock market every day, what are you seeing? You gave us a little bit of a hint there. Is it is it is it harder to navigate with all of these changes? I would say it’s harder. I would say it’s different. And what I mean by that is the stock market is always giving you opportunity. You just need to know how to spot it. And that’s the great skill of trading, in my opinion.

I believe everyone should learn the skill of trading to couple with long term investing, because you can always find those winners when you know what you’re looking for. In fact, last month in January, we took five strategic trades and actually made money on all five of those. I think our team sent some of those if you want to pull them up. Yeah. And we can look at the industries they’re in. The first one is Lulu Lamont. And that’s a retail apparel company. The reason we looked at that is it’s New Year’s. Everybody got wants to get in shape.

You’ve got the resolution. So we thought that might do well. We had a medical device company, but the two clearest winners here were in energy. And that was NRG, which is natural gas and nuclear, which is OK. Oh, those were the sectors that did really well. Yeah, I remember you were talking about the energy back in September when we had you on. And you made quite the stir by making those bold predictions on these two energy stocks, each of which went up well over 100 percent. A little eerie, I got to say. What are you looking now? I mean, we’ve got you here.

Are you still bullish on energy or is it too late to get in on those things? I definitely remember those. Our team keeps wanting to find more just like that because we had NuScale, which was up over like 200 percent and Nanonuclear, which is up like 250 percent. Yeah. And they were fantastic. As far as like, is it too late to get into energy? That sector still has trillions to grow. Wow. When you compare it to oil and gas, it’s only a fraction of what they have. And this is the energy that’s going to bring us into the future.

It’s going to power crypto. It’s going to power AI. It’s going to power Quantum. So I like those companies along with a couple others. Right now, I would not be buying them, though. And the reason is after a huge run up, they’re going to have a pullback. And you don’t want to be buying way up at the top, right? Right. So we wait for that pullback. What I do like answering your question is like, hey, what am I excited about? It’s actually robotics. I saw a recent study. This may blow your mind. A recent study showed that people spend on average about 80 to 90 hours a month doing normal household chores like laundry, which we all hate.

Right. Picking up toys after all of my kids, but also cooking and cleaning up kitchen meals. Right. On the low end, that’s 40 days a year of waking time spent doing those chores. Dang. I mean, it feels like you’re wasting your life doing something banal. But imagine saving that with a robot that could do those chores for you, which is what some manufacturers are trying to do. And so in our free training we’re hosting, I’m going to talk a little bit more about this field because when you look at it and you value your time, even at minimum wage, it’s a no brainer to purchase it.

So it’s a huge industry that’s up and coming. Absolutely. Yeah. And Elon’s on the front lines of it as well. And yeah, absolutely. Oh, I could definitely see that robotics. That’d be so cool. In a couple of years, having the robots doing the dishes for us. Yes. Living on the Jetsons, right? Where you have roads going and cleaning them. Sign me up. I already have, I already have that little spherical little robot, you know, vacuuming our rugs half the time. So why not? Let’s let’s keep that going. It’d be nice to have one that doesn’t get stuck on Nerf darts.

That’s what I’m looking for. That’s what we were talking to before the interview. You got the nine year olds. You got, you know, I’m a minor all grown up. If we have Nerf darts, it’s because of me. That’s what my wife doesn’t know what I’m doing when she’s not around. Getting back to tariffs, my friend. So Trump, this is, you know, this is for some people a little confusing because Trump says tariffs are going to make us very rich. I think I get where he’s coming from. But is he just talking about the government getting richer or is he talking about like us everyday Americans? What’s your take on that? I think it’s both.

And if you’ll remember, we’re talking about the three Rs. One of those is revenue. Tariffs provide revenue to government. In fact, before the advent of the income tax, tariffs accounted for 90% of America’s revenue. And so ultimately, I believe Trump’s setting this beautiful stage for the American people to win big, not just politicians and keep that MAGA agenda going, baby. And so when we look at Doge and the elimination of wasteful spending like USAID, which is in the headlines every single day right now, I don’t know if you saw that it was essentially funding Politico.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I saw that. Yeah. The two to eight, nine million a year. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, that’s insane. That’s wasteful spending. You’ve got 40,000 federal employees who are taking the buyout to quit. So that overhead is going down. Essentially, that will have a ripple down effect to pad the pockets of the American people, but also make America a great place for businesses to continue to grow. And so that being said, one of the best ways to capitalize on those businesses and have the success that they’re having is engaging in the U.S.

market. So as I invest in that company and it goes up, my money and my portfolio and your portfolio also goes up with it. So we’re all we’re all profiting together. So how? Yeah. So how can people do that and take advantage of the markets? What do they what do they need to know? What’s the best way to get into it? Because again, for a lot of people, they’ve been very nervous over the last four years. They withdrew their money out of, you know, they they mattress their money. They’re really scared with the with the bleak Biden years.

What do people need to know to take advantage of the markets right now? Just get involved. I mean, the best thing you could probably do is join us on either Tuesday or Thursday for that live event, the Golden Summit. Yeah, we’re going to show people how not just to survive, but actually thrive and have your money work as hard for you as you work for it. And so regardless of people have never bought a stock or if they’ve traded for years and years, they’re going to walk away with some tools and knowledge.

But just getting involved in participating with some of these up and coming industries and companies that we’re going to be talking about that we’ve already mentioned, like nuclear robotics, AI, crypto, that will have a huge impact on your finances. Yeah. Four, eight, 16 years from now. Well, again, you know, I got to tell you, I’m such a huge believer in having mentors in your life. And I’m finding the who’s not the house. Don’t don’t do your own research, per se, of trying to figure it out yourself trial by error. Find somebody who’s already done all the work for you and who can just kind of lead you through.

Take you by the hand and lead you through it. I just fill my life with people like that. And I’ve noticed my life has been enriched in all kinds of ways. Mark’s the best. And if you want to learn just exactly how to take advantage of the coming golden age in your finances, Mark is hosting another one of his awesome free trainings on Tuesday. Write it down Tuesday, February 11th at 4 p.m. Eastern or Thursday, February 13th at 7 p.m. Take your pick, either one. If you want to take advantage of this economic boom, join Mark at his free training.

It’s going to be absolutely crucial. Again, you’re going to have a mentor to teach you how to prosper during this golden age. So click on the link below or scan the QR code. Get registered. You are not going to be disappointed. I’ll be at least at one of them. Can’t wait to see you there. Mark, dude. Awesome. This is so exciting. I’m sorry. I’m like like every day is like Christmas, you know, and I’m just I’m seeing what Trump is doing in D.C. I’ve seen what the markets are doing and the possibilities seem endless. I’m just so glad.

I’m glad to be on this ride with you, my friend. God bless, man. The feeling is so mutual, Dr. Steve. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mark. Thank you. [tr:trw].

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