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Who cares so long as the stock market is doing well. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 OP
Heard it all before, haven't we? gratuitous Feb 2020 #1
Yeah. But it is about the Democracy stupid. democratisphere Feb 2020 #2
"Stocks soared Monday on bets that a war with Iraq is imminent and will *end quickly*" ck4829 Feb 2020 #3
Since a narrow range Newest Reality Feb 2020 #4
What did someone say? "History doesn't repeat itself but rurallib Feb 2020 #5
The other one I've heard is "I have so many jobs coming in" maxsolomon Feb 2020 #6

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. Heard it all before, haven't we?
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 06:13 PM
Feb 2020

Spend any time at all interacting with a trollbot, and the stock market numbers will surely make an appearance. Of course, compared to the performance of the market under Obama, the Trump stock market is performing anemically. If the market was doing as well under Trump as it did under Obama, we'd be seeing numbers north of 33,000.

ck4829

(35,077 posts)
3. "Stocks soared Monday on bets that a war with Iraq is imminent and will *end quickly*"
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 06:14 PM
Feb 2020

The stock market got 1 out of 2 things right... it was imminent, but it didn’t “end quickly”

https://money.cnn.com/2003/03/17/markets/markets_newyork/

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
4. Since a narrow range
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 06:24 PM
Feb 2020

of the population holds a large percentage of the stocks, we can cheer for whom the boom is booming on.

In a general sense, if we don't decouple our view of the stock market from the reality on our respective main streets, we are still playing along with a trickle down mentality, our thirsty mouths agape as we look up and maybe some yellow drops touch our tongues now and then.

Do well, you boom recipients whomever you are. For most of us, its getting close to that time where the bills are due, the paycheck is gone and our brows furrow and our stomachs clench as we make important decisions like: food, rent, or medications, heat? You can't have it all, you know, even when you live in a luxury tent.

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
6. The other one I've heard is "I have so many jobs coming in"
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 06:27 PM
Feb 2020

Yeah, and you had the same amount "coming in" in 2016, too, but you thought we were in a Depression because Trump badmouthed Obama.

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