Big business has an inside track in the second Trump presidency, and people with a stake in those businesses have reason to rejoice, our columnist writes.

“The chief business of the American people is business.” That declaration by Calvin Coolidge has been shortened and simplified since that Republican president uttered it before an assembly of newspaper editors a century ago.

But the notion that the business of America is business was on conspicuous display at President Trump’s inauguration. It may be the chief reason for heightened optimism about the stock and bond markets.

Plenty of worried readers have been writing in — asking how, in broad strokes, they ought to deploy their money during the second Trump presidency. It is both a pressing problem and an eternal quandary, one that, in investing jargon, is labeled asset allocation. How do you divide up your money to get the most reward for the least risk?

Keep reading this article on The New York Times Your Money.