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Must be where you live, nearly everyone I know is very confident the market will be doing much better with an actual functioning federal government again.
Your post seems to be political rather than economic. The US Federal Government functions the same as it always has.
The Department of State is fully functional.
Department of the Treasury is fully functional.
Department of Defense is fully functional.
Department of Justice is fully functional.
Department of the Interior is fully functional.
Department of Agriculture is fully functional.
Department of Commerce is fully functional.
Department of Labor is fully functional.
Department of Health and Human Services is fully functional.
Department of Housing and Urban Development is fully functional.
Department of Transportation is fully functional.
Department of Energy is fully functional.
Department of Education is fully functional.
Department of Veterans Affairs is fully functional.
Department of Homeland Security is fully functional.
Environmental Protection Agency is fully functional.
Office of Management & Budget is fully functional.
United States Trade Representative is fully functional.
United States Mission to the United Nations is fully functional.
Council of Economic Advisers is fully functional.
Small Business Administration is fully functional.
Trump and Trump supporters are so mad that the stock market rallied once the Biden presidency came into focus. It’s the exact opposite effect of what Trump told everyone would happen.
I have a friend, retired, who went to cash when Trump was elected. He really missed the boat by trying to anticipate mega trends.
I am lucky I did not retire early - a lot of people did, and almost all of them took some sort of cash payout in lieu of pension. And it almost always ends in disaster.
All you can do is live well within your means. Prepare yourself so that the books balance with what you have, but do not give up trying to make money.
I retired in 2010. If we never make another penny in actual income, we'll be fine. But I still enjoy investing and making money. Hiding just ain't my style. Someone is out there making money; it might as well be me.
Or you.
There is no evidence of any inflation whatsoever right now. Measured correctly, we have very modest deflation.
Inflation= expansion of the money supply. Rising prices are just one consequence of inflation, not inflation itself.
And prices are going up- rent, healthcare, housing, tuition, lumber, gold, silver, cars, even groceries-; none of theses are getting any cheaper and some are getting far more expensive. And at some point, we will see crippling price increases for basic good due to inflation.
Inflation= expansion of the money supply. Rising prices are just one consequence of inflation, not inflation itself.
And prices are going up- rent, healthcare, housing, tuition, lumber, gold, silver, cars, even groceries-; none of theses are getting any cheaper and some are getting far more expensive. And at some point, we will see crippling price increases for basic good due to inflation.
Shortages and demand issues are not monetary inflation ...stop the over use or increase supply and those prices come down
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