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Reporter reveals the location, location, location plus don't want to outlive your retirement savings.But first let's kick things off with a check of the US markets here as stocks are mostly flat. So in an effort to promote industry growth here in America, Biden is raising the rate of the tariffs on certain goods imported to the US from China.Instead of buying from overseas for electric cars, the tariffs would quadruple from about 25% to over 100% on a Chinese made clean energy automobile.
Uh I again, a wide swath of Americans would actually like to drive these and like to own a cheap EV, but I think let's get that because of these policies. Um We're not gonna be able to buy that car or it's gonna cost um I don't know, $24,000 if, if, if the manufacturer would decide, uh you know, that, that's another thing they could do.That's what happened with some of the Trump tariffs is that the tariffs, the tariffs went on, the products kept coming or they went through third party countries.But, um, this is not, it's not gonna affect any product for the most part that people are buying today.
I wanna get personal for the Gen Z, the millennials out there like myself that are trying to figure out, ok, I I'm blocked out from buying it right now. I mean, there, there's been conversation about housing inflation, rents being around, you know, over $2000 you gotta earn a lot to be able to live on your own.And I'm going back to savings retirement as well to put $25 just something to get you moving or because you don't wanna be at Gen X's age or Z's, you know, looking at, I wish I had set aside some money lastly here.
Are people asking you how much of their portfolio they should have exposed to meme stocks at any given juncture, uh, anticipating perhaps, or hoping for a pop like we're seeing.Because there's more risk with the main stocks than there is necessarily with managing inflation. This is the resurgence of me mania if you will, which means all the discussion about fundamentals is it fundamentally fair, overvalued, undervalued?This is much more of a social rebellion than anything else.They are the vessel of that social rebellion.And I think that has a place in all forms of trading and investing.