President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
-Economist Herbert Stein

Markets are down eight per cent since early October highs.

 

Do you think the Fed raising interest rates has anything to do with it?

 

TarHeel-
Not necessarily.
This is a decade-long bull run, it was bound to end.
Trump is lucky he got the end fumes of it so he could stupidly brag about it.

 

President Trump Admits Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Was Installed Over Robert Mueller's Russia Probe

Because of course.

 

Good point.

 

Indictments are coming immediately after the mid term elections. Yawn.

 

To be sure, the MSM has been TRUMP-eting dark mood, chaos, walls closing, from the beginning of the new Administration.

And with good reason.

 

No. She'll get bumped because enough of the new members campaigned on a promise to evict her. I'm not sure why she's so hated, but she is. And vowing to vote against her was probably a shrewd move to get elected.

 

S&P is up about three and a half percent year to date. There's been much more volatility, but it averages out to a slowdown. Common pattern for economic cycles nearing their end.