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Feux Follets says

When are the members of Team Trump going to have one 24 hour period on the forum without bringing up Obama, Hillary, etc, ?

Can't handle the truth?

Feux Follets says

Maybe one of these days we will get to see that awesome infrastructure plan ? Any idea how that is going to get paid for ?

https://patrick.net/post/1317014/2018-06-26-american-money-flowing-back-into-america-record-300-billion-repatriated-to-usa

How's that?

BTW, nice try on the FAILED re-direction.... again...

How is your 401K doing the past year and a half? Since you feel Trump is such a loser, I'm sure you didn't accept any of those gains, right?

Sniper says

How is your 401K doing the past year and a half?

Have you just assumed xyr gender, errrr , I mean, xyr employment status?

Feux Follets says

When are the members of Team Trump going to have one 24 hour period on the forum without bringing up Obama, Hillary, etc, ?

Feux Follets says

Again - can Team Trump go 24 hours on this forum without once bringing up Hillary, Obama etc. or is the attraction to high ?

Seems that there is only one person on this thread today who brought Hillary up more than once.

I wonder who that was?

Feux Follets says

Sniper says

BTW, nice try on the FAILED re-direction.... again...

Kindly learn some original retorts and refrain from plagiarizing the previous work of others.

Just pointing out the obvious, to those paying attention.

Feux Follets says

The Dow and S&P 500 blow their biggest intraday gain since February !

Here is my shocked face:

Yawn.....


2018: When 400-point stock swings became normal.
There were only eight days in 2017 when the S&P was up or down at least 1%. This year, stocks have moved 1% 23 times, and markets are on pace for the most volatile year since the financial system meltdown of 2008.

Unlike 2008, the economy is in fairly good shape.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/03/investing/large-stock-market-swings-volatility/index.html

RafiMaas says

Sniper says

Unlike 2008, the economy is in fairly good shape.

You forgot to say .... Thank you Obama.

Obama is still President? I must have missed that.

Feux Follets says

Donnie still owns it. He's taken credit numerous times as it went up - owns it on the downslides as well

Absolutely, I'll take the last year and a half over the last few years of Obama any day.

As a refresher:







Feux Follets says

all of it and when the unemployment claims start rising, he owns that too.

Wait, he won't be able to blame Obama 3 years later, like Obama did to Bush numerous times?

Ppl, forget about cap gains in the markets. Yes, we've had an extended bull run which is due for correction.

On the other hand, if the market does nosedive, like let's say a 30-40% crash, what will happen to those who hold dividend yielding stocks? Those yields will spike from 2.5% to 10-12%. And thus, if you use the dividend reinvestment program, you'll add even more stocks to your portfolio so that when the markets goes up again, you'll have an even better portfolio.

Is this not obvious? Here's a dividend reinvestment calculator which compounds your quarterly dividends, adding more shares to your bucket.

https://dqydj.com/stock-return-calculator-dividend-reinvestment-drip/

Here's RJ Reynolds, now Reynolds America (RAI) prior to the 2008 crisis, date range of Jan 2006 to Jan 2014 ...



Despite an overall major market crash, in the middle, your portfolio went from $10K to $32K. And that's because you'd invested in a firm which either maintains or raises its dividends per share.

When you reach retirement age, you stop re-investing dividends and simply use those dividends to pay your bills. Ppl, this isn't all that complicated.

RafiMaas says

Actually Obama was President from 2009 to 2017 and handed Trump a far better economy than was handed to Obama.

Lol...the stock market doesn't mean a booming economy. Anyone can do well in the stock market when there's record easy money policies. The fact that the Fed is raising rates is a compliment to the Trump administration because it means they trust the economy enough to tighten.

PrivilegedtobeWhite says

Lol...the stock market doesn't mean a booming economy. Anyone can do well in the stock market when there's record easy money policies.

and also print and inject $4 TRILLION into the economy to prop it up. I wonder why the market flatlined between 2014 and 2016 when the free money, QE flow was turned off?

PrivilegedtobeWhite says

RafiMaas says

Actually Obama was President from 2009 to 2017 and handed Trump a far better economy than was handed to Obama.

Lol...the stock market doesn't mean a booming economy. Anyone can do well in the stock market when there's record easy money policies. The fact that the Fed is raising rates is a compliment to the Trump administration because it means they trust the economy enough to tighten.

Fed is raising in an attempt to seem in control. They aren’t the primary driver behind rates going up. All they can do is print until their inflation crashes the economy.

Herdingcats says

Are we at DOW 30,000 yet? 27,000?

Just had a 617 point swing today on news the FED wont touch rates in December. 26,000 right around the corner.

I'm more worried about their secretive quantitative tightening, which will have a much bigger impact. They may hold FFR steady, but they continue to roll off billions of $s in long term bonds and mortgage assets.