A47 Brief: Trump’s Tariffs: Crashing the Top 10%’s Party to Renegotiate for the Middle Class
Trump's Plan to Force The Top 10% of Americans by Wealth Class to End the Parasitic Economy
The market "crash" following Trump’s imposition of tariffs has understandably worried and upset many, but let’s put some things into context.
Trump’s stated purpose is to drive economic activity back to the U.S. and protect domestic markets while reducing the tax burden on citizens by establishing an external revenue system. Another key aspect of this feature of Agenda 47 is to force a renegotiation, compelling those who have long resisted acknowledging that the existing system has failed both humanity and the American people. Yet, this second aspect has been largely overlooked, as many focus only on the short-term downturns in the stock market.
The Market Reaction
As proof of the fact that the investor class is feeling the impact and that this will likely drive them to participate in the rebuilding and repurposing of the American economy—Trump’s stated goal—listen to Ben Shapiro talk about an investor he knows.
The economy-focused media and related experts are confused, befuddled, and as such, claim that Trump’s tariffs will cause harm and chaos, and they are correct. They say he will fail, and even many of Trump’s supporters argue that the tariffs will not work as he thinks. However, they mistakenly assume that Trump’s goal, Agenda 47, is merely to maintain the existing economic system, offering more perks and jobs to Americans without addressing the core issue. The true purpose is to reshape and reform the economy, dismantling the parasitic economic system that has been one of many persistent problems for decades.
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While this crash will impact the working class, it primarily affects what we might call the speculative owner-business class—the sector of the economy that owns our infrastructure, profits from the stock market, and ultimately donates and lobbies to shape our nation’s economic landscape. This is the top 10% who hold most of the wealth and have benefited from the largest transfer of wealth in history over the past decade, via COVID.
This same class follows the economic winds of change wherever they lead. They often aren't knowingly malevolent but rather complacent, having gone along with many social changes that contributed to the hardships Trump was elected to address. They reaped handsome rewards from their globalist benefactors for advancing the free trade agenda that has so harmed the middle class. In effect, while many are good at heart and have decent intentions, they have sold out America, primarily because the parasitic banking puppeteers have engineered the game so that doing so is required to get ahead.
In this regard, as the working class becomes more educated about the degree to which the ownership class has participated in the destruction of America, a healthy dose of forgiveness and understanding should be allotted to them. The truth is, the game of the architects of the parasitic economy is to pit man against man, and it is unproductive to fight on the prison yard of civilization while those truly responsible eat crumpets on the sidelines and watch in delight.
While Trump has the mandate of the people, he must bring this business class—the ownership class—to heel before real changes and improvements can begin.
The Top 10% of Americans by Wealth Class — The Movers and Shakers
The top 10% of Americans by wealth hold approximately 87–93% of all stocks, equating to a value of roughly $35.75 trillion to $38 trillion as of Q4 2024, depending on the specific measure and time frame. Through this ownership and influence, they wield the power to create or destroy the lifeblood of businesses and jobs.
These men and women possess significant authority, yet they are not at the apex of the pyramid. While they maneuver the chess pieces on the global economic board, the middle class—often the pawns in this game—must adapt to the resulting changes and fallout. Many of these captains of industry attend global conferences, taking direction from influential international organizations for public-private cooperation, such as the World Economic Forum. In this sense, the top 10% are themselves pawns of a higher, wealthier order, remaining cogs in a broader system they cannot individually change or control.
Trump was part of this class, and he was summarily excommunicated for daring to go against those forces that pull the strings of this puppet top 10%. In this regard, Trump helped reveal to the world the hidden global caste system that beats at the heart of our planet's industrial economy, with international banking cartels acting as the marrow creating the blood that flows through the veins of the global economy. But, as we’ve discussed and many know, this blood is stricken with a cancer—a disease of a parasitic nature that starves out the working-class cells of our civilization's body.
These movers and shakers of business often go along to get along, participating—whether through ignorance or some degree of awareness—in schemes that have afflicted our world for decades. As evidence, consider that nearly all major businesses in our economy willingly complied with pandemic lockdowns and forced COVID vaccination policies, which have had a devastating impact on the nation’s health and negatively affected scores of lives. Through the threat of economic hardship, these movers and shakers used coercion to enforce vaccine compliance, likely justifying their actions with various rationalizations, all without realizing they were themselves pawns in a greater scheme.
In this sense, as a collective, the top 10% have proven incapable of resisting the forces that seek to weaponize health to undermine freedom—a scheme that is just one among many. For this reason, Trump can—and arguably should—exert a controlling influence over their businesses. These businesses are, in reality, a trusteeship of the economy for which they receive sizable payment. This influence can be achieved by using tariffs to bring them to the negotiating table. In doing so, Trump stands to sever the ties that have reshaped the global economy and national ecosystem, effectively taking the glove off the hidden hand that has perpetuated covert schemes of undue power and influence, which have ensnared the middle class and, more broadly, the entire citizenry.
Mover and Shaker Power and Influence
While the U.S. is a nation of quasi-free people, the reality is that the speculative owner-business class—the top 10% of Americans by wealth—exerts a greater influence over the entire nation.
The power of “voting with dollars” has a far more significant impact on civilization today than voting at the polls or in the ballot box. For the middle class, we vote with our dollars at the grocery store, online, or in other consumer venues, but the speculative owner-business class votes with vast sums of money, creating businesses, disrupting markets, and engaging in major societal projects that reshape the fabric of life for the majority of the population.
Here’s just one of many examples of the schemes orchestrated by this mover-and-shaker speculative owner-business class. In this example, private equity firms make offers to these movers and shakers to buy them out, encouraging them to asset-strip and cannibalize their own businesses for personal gain, while the middle class bears the brunt of the impact.
We who are not in this top 10% class can only vote for policies and candidates who have, for the most part, been elevated by this ownership class—and their banking and equity backers—for we the people to choose from. Ultimately, in most cases, the general population can only select from a set of policies and candidates—via our voting—that almost always prioritize the ownership class’s interests, serving the broader population’s needs only secondarily.
Business Ownership and Market Maker Role: The top 10% of Americans by wealth own 87–93% of stocks and 80–85% of private business equity, controlling the majority of U.S. businesses, from corporations to small outfits. Through this dominance, they fund, support, and profit from the entire economy, building fortunes that ultimately shape the trajectory of civilization.
Landlord Role: The top 10% of Americans by wealth hold 45–50% of real estate wealth, including over half of rental properties, positioning them as the nation’s primary landlords. They design, build, maintain, and set the cost of housing and living, often in partnership with private equity and banking interests.
Lobbying and Shaping Politics Role: The top 10% of Americans by wealth fund over 70% of political contributions, driving $4.1 billion in lobbying efforts in 2023 to shape policy. The rank-and-file masses, often unable to contribute meaningfully to the political process, are left to choose from a basket of prefabricated options crafted for the benefit of these movers and shakers and their equity backers.
Venture Capital, Shaping Business and Markets Role: The top 10% of Americans by wealth provide 80–90% of venture capital funding, investing $150 billion in 2024 to fuel startups and innovation. They shape the entire landscape of business and the economy by directing funds to some while others are starved. VC decides which innovations come to market, crushing competition before it becomes a threat, and ultimately controlling markets—stifling inventions like Casey Putsch’s cars that achieve over 100 miles per gallon, which challenge the vested interests profiting from the status quo.
Builders of Civilization Role: The investments and consumption patterns of the top 10% of Americans by wealth steer financial markets and economic activity, amplifying their role in driving the economy, which in turn, drives the whole of civilization. They fund, influence, and shape the media landscape that molds the thinking, values, and beliefs of the rank-and-file masses, creating culture and influencing civilization through lobbying, energy, housing, food, medicine, and technology.
These movers and shakers, who benefit from and participate in reshaping the economy, do so not necessarily because they desire it but because—to preserve and expand their wealth and maintain their status—they must. They are often unwitting as to the aims of their backers, the agendas pushed, and the impact it has on the broader civilization. If the movers and shakers go against the grain or step out of line, the quasi-cult within which they operate will turn against them, as evidenced by Elon Musk, who faced backlash for supporting Trump and the America First agenda.
Behind these movers and shakers are local banking interests that, to secure their profit and maintain their status, partner with these captains of industry. While it might appear as though there’s a deliberate conspiracy, many of these men and women are arguably cogs in a larger machine, just as manipulated by shadow-puppet narratives as the broader middle class. The banking system is itself so highly regulated and structured that the need for overt conspiratorial manipulation is no longer necessary. However, that does not discount the fact that there is a hidden hand of influence acting on banking interests and the captains of industry, but they do not use overt methods. Instead, they operate through narratives, market forces, and business standards, so their true intents and purposes can be hidden behind a veil, thereby maintaining the illusions of shadow puppetry for those under their control—the middle managers in the business class and banking sector.
In this sense, as Trump has worked for nearly a decade to awaken the middle and working class, he now extends his hand to the middle managers, the movers and shakers. This is what the tariffs were really all about, I argue, at least in part. To effect this transition, the stability these managers have enjoyed must be unsettled, so they naturally want to adjust to the new tide rising before them. There will no doubt be much weeping and gnashing of teeth, but the tide is turning, and they should, in good sense, move with it or risk running their collective fortunes aground.
Trump’s Tariff Negotiation Move
The tariff policies and the resulting market correction and business ecosystem influence are going to force the top 10% to the negotiating table.
Through free trade deals and other globalism-influenced economic policies, the movers and shakers have exploited the old-guard system of globalism over the past 20 to 30 years, arguably, much longer than that.
The global order of economic policy, trade deals, and treaties was transformed to favor free trade (at least in name) and globalism. While the world has undoubtedly advanced through technology and innovation, the overall quality of life and freedom enjoyed by Americans—and people in general—have declined proportionally. This same system has driven the changes over the past 50 years, has forced people to work harder and longer, with poorer health outcomes, increased social isolation, and greater erosion of community and human dignity.
Trump has openly stated that he is undermining and dismantling this system of economic control and influence, which effectively siphons wealth from the broader economy into the hands of those willing to exploit the globalist free trade system. The old-guard system of economic weaponization must be dismantled and rebuilt into something better.
As evidence of the power of this renegotiation, consider what’s already beginning to unfold on the global stage. On April 6, 2025, ABC News reported that more than 50 countries have reached out to the White House to initiate trade talks in response to Trump’s tariffs, signaling a shift in global economic dynamics.
Trump is, in effect, forcing a renegotiation of the very fabric of the economy. The top 10% of Americans by wealth tend to avoid changing anything that affects their bottom line and only mobilizes to change when the market demands it. Given this, what better way to begin solving these core problems than to force the top 10% of Americans by wealth to the negotiating table?
Addendum: Here are a few more videos that support the thesis of this article.
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Justin
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Justin Deschamps is a researcher, omniologist, podcaster, and business consultant who has committed himself to restoring the knowledge, reason, and goodwill that helped the founding fathers create the greatest nation on earth.
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Justin this article was so needed right now. Thanks for taking the time to break things down into understandable chunks that make sense. It's almost critical right now to make it simple common sense!
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