How do you make money and not lose it in the next four years in Trump's America?

How do you make money and not lose it in the next four years in Trump's America?
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Simon Robertson
John Connally was the United States Treasury secretary under President Richard Nixon. It was the end of the Bretton Woods system, the cancellation of dollar-to-gold convertibility and a period of increasing global economic uncertainty.Shortly after taking up the job, he famously told a group of European finance ministers worried about the export of American inflation that the dollar "is our currency but your problem". The US was leading the world, and the rest of the world was struggling. Sound familiar? As often, I am generally...

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