Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

The people who manage my retirement savings (403b and IRA accounts) send out quarterly portfolio balance statements. I looked at the envelope that arrived today, and my first thought was there was no point looking at it, given the current situation, but I opened the envelope anyway. There's another reason it's not worth looking at: this is a quarterly report, meaning it's as of March 31st, so before Trump announced those stupid, destructive tariffs.

TIAA-CREF has also invited me to a webinar on the current situation and what they'd advise doing. I'm not the target audience for this--my theory remains that they are the professionals, and I pay them to think about this so I don't have to--but I'm glad they offered, because plenty of their clients do want that information.