University budgets are hard, even in a petro state. Gotta get that international student tuition at 10x the rate of domestic tuition to make sure they can pay for such things as are fundamental to the essential function of scholarship and higher learning:
- the university President's 2nd private jet
- lobbyists to help protect academic journals that publish research paid for by public dollars for enormous profit
- many consultants that do important things like rebrand the university logo every years
/sarcasm
I mean, he is actively cutting the SEC for his own scamy benefit, he is tanking the dollar, he is ruining the economy, he is defenestrating the rule of law and due process, and he is doing his best to overthrow the federal reserve. Also, Republicans kind of hate a lot of the companies in the Mag 7 and are all on board for antitrust suits against woke oligopolies. If equities are investments you hold for the long haul, regardless of how the US has done in the past, how can you see current actions working out well for investment in the future?
Get off the American meme stock market rocket, chances are growing it will do a SpaceX to your investments.