Andrew Ross Sorkin

you're hopefully inside this narrative and just, you know, listening or reading this almost tale of what happened.

But as you're doing that, and I'm not trying to lead you to a place, but I imagine that there are readers who are going to go, oh, well, that's like this and that's like this and that's like this and that guy's like Elizabeth Warren and that guy is like a little bit like Elon Musk.

And so, yes.

What's your take?

I'm no longer surprised because one of the things that I've decided I've learned is that the investor class, whatever that even means anymore, is a group of people who are effectively professional optimists.

And the truth is that actually, if you look over time,

Being a professional optimist or being predisposed to being optimistic has actually been the right choice.

So I remember years ago, you'd hear about a war breaking out in the Middle East or something, and the market would falter and fall to pieces.

And the truth was that if you had bought when that happened, you would have made a small fortune.

And I think over time, people have seen that

Most of the time, it works out.

The problem is some of the time, it doesn't.

But as a result, I think there's always this predisposition towards –

there's going to be some semblance of rationality to what will ultimately happen.

And so you have President Trump out there making some grand claim about the tariffs.

The market freaks out because they're like, should I believe him?

Am I supposed to actually listen to his words?

Or am I not?

I mean, this goes, but this happens every day.

And so then you have this sort of back and forth with China.