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2. i can imagine the stock market going up 500 points in the event that
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 04:37 PM
Feb 2017

donnie drops dead. truly bizarre situation we're in.


for the most part, not even donnie can ruin most of wall street's dreams. congress will pass and donnie will sign regulation cuts, tort "reform", tax cuts, etc. all he has to do is sign. it would be different if he had to persuade anyone, but with republicans controlling everything, all he has to do is sign and take credit for things congress was going to pass on their own anyway.


it's the protectionism that scares wall street. if he can convince congress to do enough to trigger trade wars, the markets will be hurting bigly.

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