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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 rushed to gild his own lily-white ass. (I assume he doesn’t spray-tan there, but who knows? I also assumed 70...

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  • November 24, 2020

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 that the coronavirus would be a big, serious deal — even as Donald Trump was downplaying the danger at every...

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  • March 19, 2020

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: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1238799084263260161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw That tweet came following the market action on Friday, when the Dow soared 1,985 points. Well, after a weekend during...

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  • March 16, 2020

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 points yesterday is that it fell by more the previous day after getting pummeled half to death all week. In...

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  • March 14, 2020

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 Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow that “we have contained” Coronavirus and the American economy is “holding up nicely,” Trump declared...

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  • February 27, 2020

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 Tuesday night pic.twitter.com/TtRcU9moLZ— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 27, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”> REPORTER: You mentioned the stock market earlier, to...

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  • February 27, 2020

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 low dollar contributions before March 1. Thank you to all those that continue to support our efforts and welcome to...

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  • February 26, 2020

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 the fact that the Dow is plunging (down nearly 1,000 points as of this writing) will finally get his attention. Or...

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  • February 24, 2020

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 a pretty poor metric of real economic prosperity, as most of its gains go to the already wealthy — and millions...

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  • June 2, 2019

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 investor jitters over Donald Trump’s inane economic policies have made the market vacillate over the past year like a Home Depot...

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  • January 23, 2019

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 terrible week, month, and year for stocks — and, frankly, it’s hard to see a bottom. Unless you’re talking about...

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  • December 21, 2018

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 mushroom and the Dow and other stock indices will dutifully respond with record-breaking results. But ever since Tariff Man —...

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  • December 17, 2018

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 very warm dinner with President Xi in Argentina. Bob Lighthizer will be working closely with Steve Mnuchin, Larry Kudlow, Wilbur...

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  • December 4, 2018

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 followed financial prognosticators, Goldman Sachs (yes, the vampire squid itself), is predicting a significant slowdown in U.S. GDP growth for...

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  • November 19, 2018

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 Ebola virus, Trump took to Twitter to soak up praise from Maria Bartiromo, who gushed that “Year One has been...

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  • December 24, 2017