na have to wait and see. That is death to an economy.

Now compare that to we're going to be out of this in four weeks, and it's not true. It's just not true. But your leader says to you we're gonna be out of this in four weeks. Now when you get to the end of the four weeks, might you reconsider? Well of course. That's what everybody does. A month from now you should reconsider every part of your life all the time. You know everything's changing all the time. A month from now, do you still want the same job? Is your exercise routine good?

Markets and economies like certainty. Now you don't want random certainty that you know is just BS, but you're willing to take a little bit of BS because you know everybody else is going to take it, and that gives you the illusion of certainty and it keeps your economy on track.

So President Trump, master of psychology in my opinion, he's got this interesting balancing thing, because I guarantee you that Trump knows what I just said. Trump knows that certainty makes the economy work. And here's the key thing: the economy would rather definitely have bad news than maybe have good news. If you don't understand that, you're missing the importance of certainty. Certain bad news that we can figure out how to solve is better for an economy than well, could be great, I don't know, maybe some good stuff out here, can't really define it, I don't know what's gonna, could be good, could be bad, we don't know. That's death.

So at the end of the second week, the president has promised you something closer to that certainty. I don't know if all observers understand how right that is, because if he went too early and said, you know, I'm gonna tell you right now we're gonna open in three weeks or whatever, you wouldn't believe it, would you? You'd say I don't know, we haven't watched this enough, we haven't seen enough, we haven't watched the other countries enough, we haven't studied enough, we don't know enough. But at the end of the second week, you're gonna be in a little bit more of a gray area, and you're gonna say to yourself, yeah, I feel like given the trade-offs, you certainly have lots of uncertainty, but let's call it functional certainty. The real kind is where you really believe it and you're really right. The functional kind is the kind the economy needs.

The economy needs the experts and the politicians to say, you know, it's going to be three weeks. And it's okay if somebody says in three weeks a bunch of people are going to die. We're gonna lose a bunch of money. We're pretty sure about it. Remember, bad news that you're sure about and you know how to deal with it, you know how to get to the other side, is not nearly as damaging as well, we just don't know what's going on.

So get your certainty. The president has promised that. It is exactly right. He is going to have the toughest job in the world, and I hope history understands this. I hope history understands that our president is going to make a decision with, you know, he'll be talking to everybody, the governors and the experts and everything, but ultimately it's going to be a presidential decision. And he's going to have to appear in this morass of experts who may or may not agree. He's gonna have to look at the economy. He's gonna have to just feel the zeitgeist of the country. It's what he does best, right?

If you wanted one president you thought was most tapped into the zeitgeist, the answer, German word for you know how people are feeling at the same time, he's the guy. Nobody's more tapped in. You know, it has a direct pipeline of public sentiment than this president. He's very tapped in. So that's good news. He has a business background, which means he has overruled experts a lot. I don't want to tell you all the times I've over