[fintstone]

Originally Posted by tabs

The locus of power is the FED and other Central Banks. Everything else Trump, tariffs the wall trade deals tax cuts Nancy is all noise.Blips on the screen that get a a few days play. Meaningless.

Without Central Bank activism globally the global economy starts to tank. It has no legs of its own. With that being the case you have a fake economy. An Alice In Wonderland illusion where Equities go up on negative news.

It is a perverse reality that is hard to fathom and harder to swallow. In essence you are standing on quicksand.

This is what you fail to get your head around and you are not alone. It leaves you and others in a state of bewilderment trying to figure out how could that have happened..of course you have to lay the blame somewhere.

Seems like the path I have recommended has always put me in the money...while others predicting doom have not done so well.

How do you construe full employment and no decrease in wages or employment to be such negative news? There are more jobs than people to fill them, even after so many have returned to the workforce. Any employable person not working now, chooses that path.

I think my prediction of the deal with Mexico yesterday to be pretty darned good. Note that you did not see that anywhere else. Similarly the decrease is interest rates that I have expected.

One does not make money without risk...and while the "sky is falling" methodology works eventually if you proclaim it long/often enough...as cyclical events will eventually result in some losses.

Slightly lower rates are exactly what is needed and were to be expected. Anyone investing in instruments that are dependent on higher interest rates for return are simply making an error. The jobs number was very helpful...and the Tariffs a stroke of genius.