Getting a $200 Natural Gas bill....when historically even in the cold months the most I've paid was maybe tops $120ish? And that was tops.
Not intending to turn this into a P/R deal but this confused ass, space out puppet of a President and the agenda he's the face of can go F%ck right off. For those that'll say it's more nuanced than that....when the mean orange guy was in office my 401k was skyrocketing and my cost of living was great. With dementia man it's the totally opposite of the spectrum.
C'mon Gary... you're smart enough to realize that it isn't your POTUS that sets global supply/demand issues around resources, or dictates global economic conditions. Did "dementia man" have a say in the increases I'm seeing?
Did "dementia man" have a say in the increases I'm seeing?
To use a Stadler colloquialism, 'be better' than to just toss the blame to the politicians you aren't in sync with. And the name calling ... Stadler hates that.
Please; we're going to pound on Gary for venting and there's 1,000,000 tweets every minute about "MAGA THIS" and "MAGA THAT".
In all seriousness, though, while the idea that the "president controls this" is nonsense, there is one element that we're seeing more and more and that is "consumer confidence". I don't JUST mean consumers like you and me, I mean the money that flows in the market. There IS some truth to the notion that the President sets the tone. And it's unassailable that the liberal tone is one of anti-corporatism. I've written numerous times that the crash in 2008 was bad, but could have been less bad without the ACA (which mean a possible higher price tag for corporations), the commitment for environmental justice (which almost always means a higher price tag for corporations) and the commitment to climate change (which ALWAYS means a higher price tag for corporations). However you slice it, "higher price tag for corporations" means two things: one, lower profits, which means more tempered stock prices, and two, higher prices for consumers like you and me.
Trump, for better or worse, WAS indirectly responsible for our stock prices doing so well. The market knew that whether Trump was acting with integrity or not, he served to benefit from a higher stock market and his administration would do nothing to interfere with that. Relaxed standards, relaxed regulations, all serve to increase future profitability, which is the single biggest decider of stock prices. With Biden, rightly or wrongly, that certainty isn't there, and stock prices are more tempered.
Now, whether a rising stock market is worth all that is a wholly different question. I personally would trade a more measured stock market for reduced divisiveness, myself. We're not seeing that, so we have the worst of both worlds, but a girl can dream.
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