President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Edit: Dow was down 1,500 and perked back up a bit. Seems to be out of freefall for the time being.

Sitting at the desk watching it plummet for a while, I started to have flashbacks to Sept. 29, 2008.

 

So far, Trump is quiet about the stock market decline. Surprises me. I figured he'd say, "The market is falling because Wall Street is bugged by this fake Russia thing. They're afraid it will hurt me and my presidency. Another reason to shut down this bogus probe."

 

Keeping Kosher and keeping the Sabbath are commandments from god. If you purport to be Jewish, that should be pretty important.

 

Good thing this president's approval rating is in no way tied to the stock market.*

*He has repeatedly taken credit for the stock market.

 

These computers doing automatic panicky trading seems like a Dr. Strangelove-esque doomsday device we've all shoved our money into.

 

Hey @doctorquant Generally speaking, what causes such massive fluctuations in short periods of time ?

 

I don't believe that's a very widely held view, at least among the Jews I know.

 

Automated, algorithmic trading ... orders programmed in when thus-and-such trigger occurs, thus occasionally triggering in other pre-programmed others ... then it corrects (or doesn't).

@The Big Ragu knows more about the details of it than I do. That's the gist, though.

 

To say nothing of the fact there are 611 further commandments in the same book. The argument over which of those to keep goes back to Moses.