Your 2025 plans are shot to pieces. Thanks to the trade war, weakening consumer confidence, rising inflation expectations, downward pressure on the U.S. dollar—not to mention the usual uncertainty around customers, technology, and competition—your guidance to Wall Street is about as useful as last year’s Kentucky Derby predictions. Your capital spending plans…can we pause for a bit? Your hiring plans, marketing budget, pricing strategy…can we set up time next week?
