re: Why are the markets tanking?

Well.. you have a house full of morons that want to have an all out assault on the executive branch for 2 years.

You have partisan US attorneys clamoring to find a way to produce an indictment on a sitting president for things that have barely been blinked at previously.

You have the curtains pulled back on a dangerously partisan federal law enforcement entity who apparently had, possibly still has, an upper division that was in the business of investigating republicans and cleaning up the mess of democrats.

You have a former head of the FBI just admit he provided an unverified dossier to the FISA court, that he knew was funded by democrats, to obtain a surveillance warrant to spy on a presidential campaign. A campaign of a man he despises and didn’t want to be president.

You have a new crop of idiot, far left, inexperienced liberals who does not know the 3 branches of government, believes you very easily “just pay for” single payer, and believes the pentagon has just pissed away 21 trillion dollars, and dreams of the same stuff that has thrown France into chaos.

You have a House of Representatives that come January, wants to reverse everything that has jump started the economy.

You have a mass media that hyperventilates at the possibility of bad news against the administration and begins to report rumor and innuendo as current news. And the reporting of the false news has proven to sway the market in the near past.

You have heads of social media and tech companies being caught giving favoritism to one political ideology while suppressing another... companies that have publicly traded stock. And they have and are going to be, called to congress to answer committee questions.

Yea... I think there may be a pretty big load of uncertainty in the market right now.

trade wars, trillion dollar deficits and rising interest rates... welcome to trumplandia.

Definitely not China. Investors and businesses love unpredictability. And they love when things cost more to move around.

Honest question... why did the Fed not raise interest rates under BHO like they are under DJT.? Seems like they are much more active than before.

China deal in less than 90 days is a dream.

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Why are the markets tanking?

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Because now is not a good time to steal.

The impact of the tax cuts are starting to wear off.


Fiscal policy is a nominal shock, and nominal shocks only create short run impacts on the economy. As we get further removed from their implementation, firms and prices adjust to the new reality and the short term boost created will dissipate

Trump never filed for personal bankruptcy. 3 of his businesses did file for bankruptcy. You probably aren't smart enough to know the difference, but it's a huge gap. And he has owned like 100 businesses. Lie all you want, but the man has always made money.

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Honest question... why did the Fed not raise interest rates under BHO like they are under DJT

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following their dual mandate for targeting a certain inflation and unemployment rate, why else?