This is the market Ben Inker has been waiting for. In the grip of Wall Street’s big rebellion against President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda – with stocks down around 2% this week even after Friday’s big rebound – Inker is among a cohort of investors making money in this year’s volatility spiral.

They thought his second term would be like the first, giving priority to economic growth and the stock market. Trump had other ideas.

In 1929, at the start of the stock market crash that inaugurated the Great Depression, Variety ran the famous headline: “WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG.” It’s possible now to imagine the sequel: “DONALD TRUMP LAYS AN EGG.”