“The purpose of bringing this up is to say unintended consequences could put a big hurt on the US economy and to also jack up inflation in food prices, construction costs and more. This could lead to blood in the equity streets and an opportunity to buy stocks at much cheaper prices perhaps later in 2025. Could Warren have foreseen this last year when he was raising Berkshire's enormous cash pile?”

No. Buffett raised a huge cash pile before the election. The most likely explanation is he felt the prices of those individual companies was too high and took some gains off the table. The sell high part. When he will get to do the other part and buy low is anyone’s guess, as I’m sure Buffett would tell us.

It’s not bad to have a lot of cash around right now.