So did anyone else wonder if there was a direct connection between the Democrats announcing that Harris is officially their presumptive candidate and the stock market plunging earlier this week?
Stock markets react in real time. If it was a direct connection, this dip would have happened on July 22. It didn't. It held fairly steady for the 2 weeks since Biden dropped out.
When Biden dropped out, Harris was not 100% the candidate yet.
Harris also announced her VP pick right before this.
Something else Harris did recently... when asked a question about what her
plan is to combat inflation... in her word salad way, she stated that
inflation was an issue but gave absolutely *zero* explanation about what
her plan was, or any indication about whether or not she even *has* a plan.
It was *not* an answer that would inspire confidence in anyone with any
stake in the US ecomony... as an investor, consumer, or otherwise.
You would expect a Presidential candidate to at least have some canned
response regarding inflation at-the-ready but she seemed totally blindsided
by it.
While I think it is smart not to debate the Democrat candidate again until
they are officially named at the convention (so they cannot swap out as
easily again), I am starting to wonder if Trump shouldn't have gone ahead
and debated her right away. If her answer here was any indication of her overall preparedness to disccus the issues, as long as Trump just stood aside and let her babble like he did Biden, he'd have to shot himself in the foot
to lose.
Until the jobs report came out on Friday after the market closed. Fewer jobs created than expected, with a slightly higher (but still incredibly low) unemployment rate caused a panic. Hence the drop on Monday.
You really want to blame anything you can on Biden, don't you? My keg in my
kegerator also ran empty on Monday, and I don't have anything ready to replace
it with. Maybe we can blame that on him, too?
No to both of your questions. If we had a Republican administration right
now, and especially a Trump one, bad jobs creation news followed by a stock market drop would most certainly be blamed on him, so why not point out
that it could be related to the current administration or the announcement
that a potentially underprepared candidate is officially the candidate?
Although as I type this, Hulk Hogan is about a mile from my house hawking his new beer at a Wal-Mart. Maybe Trump did it, and is trying to get me to buy Th
Hulkster's brew.
(Most reviews compare it to Miller/Bud/Coors/Busch Light beers and say it's surprisingly flavorful, but still pretty lackluster as a lager goes. Yes, I'l
likely pick some up at some point just to try it, even if the cans violate the
US Flag Code. )
I don't drink beer... it smells the same going in as it does out and makes
me ill before I even get a buzz... so I was not aware. Let us know what
you think of it if you do pick some up.
I wonder how many other products over the recent years have also violated
the flag code? I am with you, I think, in that I wish they would not do so.
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