Be the Money
Policy Will Shift
Remedy for some of the feckless stampede to Mar-a-Lago exists.
Sell.
Erase the claim that it is for your benefit, as a shareholder, that owners of legacy news and social media platforms are scurrying to appease and enrich Donald Trump.
The excuse is insulting. Those guys and their top-tier employees like their homes in the Hamptons and their apartments in London, Paris, and Berlin. They like their yachts and planes. They believe you have no idea about their doomsday bunkers. They are protecting and boosting their own sweetheart and golden handcuff shareholder positions.
This is not capitalism. This is cronyism.
We the People are fiscally naïve. We are enabling their callous treachery. Resist. Move your funds.
Keep investing in America.
With the companies which we own. The ones that strengthen our infrastructure. The ones that safeguard our ability to defend ourselves.
With enterprises dedicated to the proposition of equity.
With businesses sensitive to environmental concerns.
Let’s wise up. And leave Big Sham explaining their sagging market positions to their international shareholders—like China.
When Elon Musk promised “some will be hurt,” let’s do our best to share the pain.
Follow the money. If Trump obsesses on money--his, plus some for his billionaire pals, then it's worth a few minutes and some phone calls this month to put an end to that.
Let's do the math. Households in America: 115 million. Americans with all of their wealth and retirement accounts in investment accounts: 62% of adults. Identify the companies that are rushing to Mar-a-Lago and include in your list the companies no longer aligned with your values for your health, welfare, family, environment, national security, and ethical behavior. Give that list to your wealth manager or whoever helps you with selling and buying. Instruct them to SELL. And instruct them what to BUY, instead.
Good news: There are more than 6,000 publicly traded companies in the U.S., and we haven't started to mention the privately-held, family corporations, open for investments.
We can all do better by realizing it is our money and our instructions on where to invest.