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Old 12-08-2018, 09:51 AM
 
Location: SE Arizona - FINALLY! :D
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What policies did Obama enact to make the markets go up?
What policies did Trump enact to make the markets go up (before he was even in office)?

Ken

 
Old 12-08-2018, 10:27 AM
 
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What policies did Obama enact to make the markets go up?
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What policies did Trump enact to make the markets go up (before he was even in office)?

Ken
The answer to both these questions is the same.

This is a ridiculous non-stop game of "my team is better" when both teams are more similar than they are different.
 
Old 12-08-2018, 11:44 AM
 
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Funny how they miss the point that the market has risen to historic highs under the Trump economy. How all records have been broken, and like roaches when the lights are turned out, show up on a routine dip.
Funny how you describe "the point" the way you do, further demonstrating who tends to miss the point in general, but there's not a whole lot can be done about misperception in these regards, regardless what real the truth of these matters may be...
 
Old 12-08-2018, 11:50 AM
 
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She admitted to it in her book. Got anything else to say that isn't correct?
Drinking in Washington DC? Shocking!

PS: If we're going to make an effort to be correct, Hillary Clinton has never admitted to being an alcoholic, and there isn't any real evidence to suggest any such thing. Not everyone who has a drink or even drinks too much on an occasion is an alcoholic. Again, you and everyone else should be ashamed of pushing falsehoods and misrepresentations of the truth REGARDLESS THE FACT OTHERS DO TOO!
 
Old 12-08-2018, 11:54 AM
 
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cool story...

Yet Obama gave us the first 7 years of the 8 year bull.... i would have said 9 but this year has really not worked out as a growth year.


i have been investing for decades .... YOU/ME have never seen a bull run go this long and frankly Trump has duck all to do with it. All he did was juice it with a massive tax scam....

I am sure you will stick your head in the sand like most Trumpy folk do, but the reality is many Trumpy folk were too afraid to fully invest under Obama and because of that they lost out on the easy money.....


We have thread after thread where this has been fully explained to you guys, but clearly trumpy folk are more comfortable with made up fantasies . Claiming Trump gave us the bull, is bs. It was Obama who put in place the policies that created massive growth in asset valuations.... Trump like a dumb butthead juiced it with his stupid tax scam.... That is now coming back to bite him, he knows it, you likely know it too....
Very tired of seeing the repetition you describe in so many of these threads, the futility of explaining what you are trying to explain yet again. So it's nice to simply see others like you trying instead of me. Perhaps to save me the time and key strokes that never seem to make a bit of difference anyway...

Also amazing to see are all the comments by so many people expressing irreconcilable differences of opinion with an apparent complete lack of understanding why these differences are irreconcilable!
 
Old 12-08-2018, 12:00 PM
 
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This is very ignorant, Obama’s last year was 1.6% annual growth, far from “strong”
"Everything is relative."

If you are called in as a pitcher when your team is down by a lot of points, and if you bring the score around to a tie or maybe even help your team get the upper hand, that's considered a "strong" performance.

If you are called in as a pitcher when your team is up and all you really need to do is keep from losing the game that is for the most part your's to win, and then if the game begins to go south on you, you're likely to be called off the mound and with good reason.

If you don't understand how this analogy applies to Obama and/or Trump, then no doubt your bias is preventing you from seeing things honestly and objectively.
 
Old 12-08-2018, 12:09 PM
 
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At this point in his presidency, the Obama stock market (DJIA) was up ~140%
At the same point in his presidency, Trump's stock market (DJIA) is up ~123%

If you look at the NASDAQ Obama has an even better record.

~179% (Obama) v. 125% (Trump)

And that includes part of the horrendous dip it had taken because of the previous republican president's crater. I think Trump fans should stop beating that dead horse.
Using the stock market as a report card for any POTUS is something like using the oil check dip stick to evaluate the condition of a car. Too simplistic, misleading and altogether ignorant of all the moving pieces that actually cause market swings and economic ups and downs.

That said, it isn't that hard to see how a POTUS can either be helping or hurting the broader picture for economic growth both here and abroad. Trump has either been misdirecting, stagnating or undermining all he COULD be doing to foster greater prosperity for all concerned, to whatever extent we can credit a sitting president for the likes given all "the rest of the story."
 
Old 12-08-2018, 12:10 PM
 
Location: SE Arizona - FINALLY! :D
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Nope, I just meant to say Election Day to Election Day, which is when markets react to who is going to be in office.

Nov 4, 2008 DJI: 9,625
Nov 8, 2016 DJI: 18,332

You should really calm down Ken. The spittle from your unhinged Obama defense came out of my computer monitor.
Even using THOSE dates/numbers, your claim is a lie. Obama saw the stock market go up nearly 9,000 points (almost DOUBLE -a 90% increase). While Trump's numbers (as of today) show about a 6,000 point increase (roughly 33% increase - about 1/3rd the increase Obama had) - with essentially NOTHING for the past year. There WAS plenty of EXPECTATION about Trump for the market (hence the gains in the 1st year), but the reality - as we're seeing this year - is something far, far different.

Ken
 
Old 12-08-2018, 12:15 PM
 
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Economists? LAWL

They ALL got it wrong starting with that idiot nobel pryze winner Krugman who said the markets would crash to recession levels under Trump IF he was elected.

https://www.investors.com/politics/c...tions-of-2017/

But if you believe them, when are you going to liquidate?
Right. Why don't we add all economists to the list of all things Trump and his supporters don't need when they've got their very own big brains and keen insights to rely on? We don't need no stinking economists, or professors, or media, or scientists, or functioning White House staff, or environmentalists, or even the truth for that matter!

PS: do you spell prize the way you do on purpose or is there some other clever reason I wonder...
 
Old 12-08-2018, 12:17 PM
 
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LAWL. It had crashed to nothing under Obama. Even a $1 rise looks like 100% from that. You guys know this market has boomed under Trump. And you hide like roaches under a rock with obtuse facts such as that.
Are you drinking? Just curious...
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