Strong economic gains in the long term are worth the short-term stock market volatility Americans experienced this week, allies of President Donald Trump tried to argue Thursday as they fanned out across cable news and a number of media outlets to spread their perspective.

Second, the U.S. stock market recovered remarkably quickly from the tariffs imposed during the first Trump administration. Specifically, while the S&P 500 declined 19.8% over a three-month period between September and December 2018, the index had already recouped its losses and reached a new high by May 2019.

March 2025 will go down in history as the month the U.S. economy decided to take a nosedive off a financial cliff—with a little push from President Donald Trump’s tariff tantrum. Stock market collapse March 2025.

US stocks open lower after Trump threatened a 200% tax on European liquor if the EU tax on US whiskey isn't removed.

March’s stock market selloff showed no signs of easing Thursday as major indexes closed at their lowest points of the year, sending the S&P 500 into a correction amid intensifying backlash to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs,