Ignore the stock market — Wall Street dealing with painful detox from government spending addiction

Wall Street is puking big time, and the sell buttons are working overtime whenever the word "tariff" passes from Donald Trump's lips. If you listen to the fat cat community long enough, you'd think Trump has been in office four years rather than four weeks, and that a small trade surcharge on a car from Mexico is leading us into economic Armageddon. I'm no fan of tariffs for lots of reasons, including I hate paying too much for stuff, but I've also taken enough econ and studied markets long enough to know that they're not the end of the world…