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Or maybe Madison Cawthorn is the dumbest.

Thanks!

I understand why they dropped when Covid hit, but I wondered why they started dropping in Summer, 2019.

S&P 500 up almost 3%. That is surprising. It usually goes down when the Fed speaks.

Most investing forums I have seen are very political and most of the members think they know everything which is not useful at all. The Bogleheads forum is pretty sane.

Just the person I wanted to see here. Why did they raise the rates in 2018 and then bring them back down in 2019?

For those that follow these things more closely than me, is Matt Gaetz the dumbest congressman ever? I know there is a lot of competition?

Nobody is writing Dingler off. He is good prospect, not someone you can count on (few prospects are), but someone with a lot of potential.

Yes, the feds got scared/intimidated in 2019 when the market suffered. It had nothing to do with Covid.

It's always been in the politics section, but politics was frowned upon. The people that started the thread have always believed that Wall Street is the dog and the politicians are the tail and they've got a point.

It seemed substantial compare to the prior 9 years or so. I guessed your interprtation of why it was dropped, but didn't want to get too political in here.

Why did they raise the interests substantially in 2018 and then bring them back down again? My assumption was they were proactively raising rates to stave off potential inflation from the tax cuts. Maybe someone smarter than me can explain what happened.

He gave you the right's serious answer.

I don't think Trump wanted to be president though. He can get more money and plenty of attention and have more fun with Trump Media. He wouldn't have to any of the boring President stuff. He could even have rallies. He'd be like Carlson or Hannity telling a puppet president what to do.

I'd settle for Ramon Santiago.

I think you'll be left alone if you're a straight White Christian male with some wealth.

I don't think we can. I have grown to realize that the divisions in this country are much bigger than I always assumed. Social media didn't bring it on. It exposed it and gave more people a voice to express their differences. The extremes are much more highly populated than I realized. Balkanization seems reasonable to me. The questions are can it be done relatively peacefully? And can it be can be done, so the different parts can thrive economically and militarily?

This makes no sense to me. Please clarify.

Someone in a coma is an obvious human being who has had a whole life of thoughts and feelings which are easy to empathize with. There is even some evidence that they may contiunue to have thoughts and feelings while in a coma. That person also most likely has friends and family who love them and would be devastated by the loss so the empathy extends to them. It is very unlikely that an embryo has any of that at a meaningful level.

You certainly do not. In fact, I have not seen evidence in my life that religious people have more empathy than non-religious people. but how does one feel empathy for something that almost certaintly does not have any awareness? I can't believe that an embryo at three weeks is an actual person that feels pain, feels sadness or distress or even has any awareness of human existence. You can certainly feel that that every potential life lost is a bad thing, but I don't see where empathy comes in.

Those are exactly my feelings.

That sounds like religion to me.

It's almost like they should have started doing this years ago.

Maybe they didn't like Clinton and didn't think she offered anything, so they weren't interested. Maybe they don't care about the democraic party. It's their right. If Sanders didn't get them excited, they probably wouldn't have voted in the primaries either.

I don't think most of us here are going to do that! Social media is really about who you follow though. It's not hard to stay away from unreasonable people. Also, stay away from the "trending" click bait. It's never a good idea to click on that stuff.