The U.S. is a free country.  You have the freedom to do what you want.  That might include starting your own company, and can even include selling stock in your company to investors.  

The U.S. government exists to protect your rights to do such things.

But even so, there are differences from one President and his political party to another.

President Obama’s signature legislation, for example, was ObamaCare.  The continuance past year-end of that set of programs is now being hotly debated in Congress, and all other legislation is being held up while Senate Democrats focus on passing legislation to continue ObamaCare.  

President Biden’s signature legislation was the “Inflation Reduction Act”.  It did not reduce inflation in the slightest.  Biden, ever the slick politician, gave it that name to sound good to people who were not following politics too closely.  

ObamaCare and the Inflation Reduction Act were detrimental to many families across America.  

Inflation in 2022 and 2023 was particularly high. The Inflation Reduction Act deserves most of the blame.  Even to the present day, the Federal Reserve is still working to reduce the resulting inflation.  The Fed finally felt comfortable reducing interest rates by 0.25% in September and again in October.  

Even though inflation is still too high, the high interest rates were making it more difficult for businesses to afford paying for the growth they needed, which in turn would require the hiring of more employees.  

President Trump, in contrast, is focused on doing everything possible – even raising tariffs – to encourage businesses to employ more people.  

ObamaCare and the Inflation Reduction Act increased the number of government workers, and therefore the taxes to pay those workers.

When Senator Schumer demanded that the legislation to continue ObamaCare be passed, and stalled the Senate until that happens, President Trump furloughed Federal employees – and fired many of them permanently.  

While that action of dismissing Federal workers was taken to the Supreme Court, the fact is that the continuance of ObamaCare must be accomplished before the New Year.  The news media does not report it, but if the shut-down in the Senate continues for just two more months, ObamaCare, like it or not, will be dead.  

The end of the huge expense to support ObamaCare will end as well – and reducing the size and expense of government is a hallmark of much of Trump’s efforts as President.

For investors, that will mean more growth for businesses.  Start making your plans:  if ObamaCare expires, how should your investment plans change?

Increased business growth means a growing economy.  The price of many stocks will be going up.  But which ones?  You have two months to figure out the answer, and begin buying stocks now, in 2025, and to buy more in 2026.

Happy investing!

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