Rich people just came into more cash and don't trust banks. It's not up because the little guy just bought a 100 shares.

are investing because they want the Repugs to win in November and they perceive that a booming Dow is the way to make that happen.

DOOZY!!! ( i bet) i wouldn't want any part of it!!!

It's just terribly weird that it hasn't crashed yet. But it will crash before the election so the republicans will bail it out, my guess.

Either that, or it will wait until Biden is president to make sure the market crashes under a democratic president for a change.

I TOTALLY DESPISE HIM.

Obviously, I'm not suggesting that you're pushing a right wing viewpoint!

I've heard Republicans say things like, "You Democrats want the markets to go down so Trump will lose!" Or, "You Democrats want more people to die so you can blame Trump!"

As a life-long Democrat, I'd like to see Trump gone AND the markets go up. Nearly everyone is affected by the status of the various financial markets because of their economic power. If things go south in a big way, we're all in trouble.

Damn, not my intention at all.

That's why I wrote my first sentence in my reply!

It's just that sometimes, our hatred of Trump takes us to inconvenient places!

Enjoy your afternoon, a kennedy.

It will deflate when the balloon bursts.

The anchors on Bloomberg radio last night were expressing bewilderment that the markets weren't reacting more to the China/Hong Kong news.

The markets have decoupled from reality.

Like trump and munchin are doing by pouring money into it with our money from the treasury, it will catch up in time, then crash. Trump is trying to use it to con people into believing the economy is good when it's really getting much weaker and heading us into the trump depression. If he loses he'll then let it crash to hurt America for not voting for him. We saw these kinds of tactics used by W Buch too , while he claimed the economy was good. I feel for those people about to lose everything when it corrects itself .

it is completely disconnected from reality.

I know who it will be.

months off at best. We know more now than we did several months ago about treatment, transmission, impact on the world, how many get really sick and need hospitalization, what it will take for a vaccine, how willing government is to provide economic assistance to unemployed, etc.

I bet the market would do even better if we all had to wear masks.


If you don't care/believe any of that, then the market is doing better because they know trump is going to get his rear handed to him in November.

that we just can't see yet.

I'm not counting on that, though. I have a large sell order that is now within 4% of executing, and I see no reason to take it off.

They have these programs that will buy stocks in the Dow, NASDAQ and Futures that keep it from going down. It’s all smoke and mirrors. I used to work in the stock market in from 1978 until 2013 and saw and heard from other traders that it’s all artificial. These hedge( vulture ) funds are calling the shots and a lot of hedge fund guys are MF45 supporters who like the lower taxes and want to eliminate the capital gains tax. This is their last chance and they are propping up the market with their trading programs.

Building a house of cards, once again.

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