Trump: 'If [Biden is] elected the stock market will crash' (through the ceiling to Dow 30,000)

So today, Donald Trump called an impromptu press conference in order to swiftly take credit for the rising stock market. After the Dow cleared 30,000 for the first time ever, Trump … Read More

GOP Senate Intelligence chair dumped up to $1.6 million in stock just before market started crashing

Daily Kos’ Kerry Eleveld reported on Part I of this outrage earlier today. In sum, Republican Sen. Richard Burr, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned a group of wealthy insiders … Read More

Behold! The worst-aging tweet in the history of tweets!

This was Donald Trump on Saturday, pumping up a stock market that’s dropping faster than Americans’ jaws every time his poor man’s Mayor McCheese head shows up on their teevee screens: BIGGEST … Read More

As wheels come off the country, Trump tweets, 'BIGGEST STOCK MARKET RISE IN HISTORY!'

First of all, you’d have to have a head full of sawdust to buy into this market right now.  Secondly, the only reason the stock market rose by nearly 2,000 … Read More

Protecting Trump now, Limbaugh and Kudlow blamed Obama for 2008 bear market

Furious over the Dow’s 1,900 point plunge over the past three days, President Trump held a press conference Wednesday to try to calm markets. Echoing the comments of his National … Read More

Trump blames Monday's and Tuesday's big stock market slide on Tuesday night's Democratic debate

Donny Trump has come unstuck in time … (Second tweet): x Trump again absurdly blames a stock market slide that mostly happened Monday on a Democratic debate that took place … Read More

#KremlinAnnex Week 85 protest Tuesday #DowJones down 2000 points in two days

x #KremlinAnnex 358, we are kicking off 85 of protesting at the #KremlinAnnex! https://t.co/lC6k5J42ko — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) February 26, 2020 x We have set a goal of adding 200 … Read More

Ted Lieu: Dow is plummeting due to coronavirus, so why is Trump proposing deep cuts to the CDC?

It’s pretty much a given that Donald Trump cares more about his reelection and his wealthy cronies’ stock portfolios than he does dying Chinese, Italian, and Iranian people, so maybe … Read More

The pathetically weak Trump stock market in three easy-to-read charts

Well, it’s weak compared to the stock market returns under the Kenyan socialist America-hating usurper Barack Obama, anyway. Lots of caveats go with this, of course. The stock market is … Read More

Stock market dips on some worrying economic data, Trumpian unforced errors

So this happened today: Given the volatility in the stock market of late, today’s 300-point pratfall isn’t all that noteworthy. But what’s a bit more concerning is the likely reason. While … Read More

The Dow is almost certain to end the year in the red now

Trump promised a red wave this year, and it looks like he got it. Rivers of red ink are flooding Wall Street. The Dow closed at 22,445.37 today, ending a … Read More

The Dow is off more than 1,000 points from this time last year

It’s important to remember that the stock market is not the economy. That said, for two straight years Donald Trump suggested that all he has to do is wave his magic … Read More

Dow drops nearly 800 points after Trump calls himself 'Tariff Man'

Early this morning, Donald Trump tweeted some homespun wisdom: The negotiations with China have already started. Unless extended, they will end 90 days from the date of our wonderful and … Read More

Goldman Sachs predicts big slowdown in GDP growth prior to 2020 elections

As I write this, the Dow is sliding faster than creamy ranch McNugget sauce down Donald Trump’s moobs at a Mar-a-Lago sauna. And now, one of the world’s most closely … Read More

The 'we told you so' president

As 2017 draws to a close, President Donald Trump and his amen corner are bragging about his “year of solid policy accomplishments.” Despite approval ratings only slightly higher than the … Read More