It's not a matter of if, but when, Trump gets control over the Fed.
We all know he will immediately slam the interest rate lever to 0%. What happens after that is unknown but it won't happen overnight. So now you have a window where the dams break and money starts flowing everywhere but nothing is off the rails yet.
What would you do if you had 60-90 days to take advantage of this?
Buy as much property as banks will loan you the money for. You'll borrow the money cheap and then inflation will rocket, meaning the property will gain value while the bank is left holding the bag due to the dwindling value of the money you owe them.
This will only work if mortgage rates actually drop hand in hand with the fed rate, BTW. And that isn't always guaranteed as the primary risk for a lender is inflation, so if high inflation is obvious and predicted as a consequence, mortgage rates will remain high to compensate.
The correct answer is probably "buy foreign currency".
A sneakier answer is probably "short stuff". That will probably get you creamed.
What everyone is going to do is "get as much of that free money as you can, and worry about the rest later". At the end they'll make a ton of profit but be sad that they didn't predict the market peak, so it will feel like a loss.
If the interest rates slam to 0, we already saw what happens.
Everyone closest to the money printer funnel becomes wildly rich buying appreciating assets on negative real interest rates.
As you get further from the sphere of influence with first shot at the money spigot, the worse off you are. The guy at the very end just gets a diluted jar of nothingness.
Your desire to time the market typhoon caused by the abandonment of decades of US world monetary leadership is confounded by the need to time the market squall due to the current US government shutdown. And quite frankly also to time the impending crash from AI overvaluations in the stock market.
Just buckle up folks. Ain't no one getting out of this clean.
The American economy is a $30 trillion freight train. All the decisions being made right now, no matter how small or large, will probably take multiple decades before cumulatively showing their full effect. We can probably all see where things are headed in the long term, but the best move right now is to close your eyes and enjoy the party.
Buy stocks.
If I knew before, I'd buy long bonds. (Or maybe medium would be better?)
Maybe the larger problem is that I'd expect, after that 60-90 days, the value of the dollar will get destroyed. So you made a ton of money during that 60-90 days. Now where are you going to put it?
Basically all stocks are gonna go up in short term, because everyone knows money is gonna be invested in projects rather than financial instruments.
Ride the wave, accumulate cash, then exit early and start looking to relocate countries.