2nd Quarter 2025
Market Watch
by Joe A. Hollingsworth, Jr.
Welcome to a new era! This is becoming the era of “enablism”; because, for the first time in American history, we are talking about substantially deregulating and actually doing it! So, what are the potential savings? Frankly, no one knows. A typical regulation has so many facets and unintentional results that we simply have no known unit of measurement to isolate what this could mean to each business or American family.
For example, if you take any prescription drug with seven common side effects and seven rare side effects, you could easily dissect those and run the risk/reward to decide on whether to take the prescription or not; and, of course, you can watch for the side effects. However, if you are taking four prescriptions each with a separate list of seven common side effects and seven rare side effects with some of the side effects overlapping with each prescription, you no longer have control of your body and how you think it is going to react. The exponential results from the number of side effects overlapping (and others that may not overlap but trigger other responses in your body) means that you can no longer determine what hurts or repairs your body, because the variables are endless (thus the complications of modern pharmacy).
However, the reverse is true with regulations. When you start recognizing that no longer does a regulation that has been discontinued overlap with another regulation but may simplify the underlying regulation to the point that it is a non-issue. This is already happening with the huge regulation abandonment by EPA. The ripple effects through the EPA alone are going to have a direct impact on fifty states and on every developer and contractor. However, this is just the beginning.
Just to name a few of the deregulations: 1) Unleashing American Energy; 2) Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions; 3) Regulatory Freeze Pending Review; 4) Hiring Freeze; 5) Withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization; 6) Declaring a National Energy Emergency; 7) Establishing and Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency; 8) Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing; 9) Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential; 10) President Donald J. Trump Launches Massive 10-to-1 Deregulation Initiative; 11) Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court; 12) Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy; 13) Designating English as the Official Language of the United States; and, 14) Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.
All governmental departments that are simplifying will strongly affect all American families, and I feel it will realign America’s political parties permanently.
As far as industrial development goes, our serious inquiries (footprint wide) are up six-fold from what they were five months ago, and we see nothing but the “Golden Age’ that Trump predicted.
BUILD, BABY, BUILD!
