Joe Biden Presidency thread *Please read OP - Threadbanned Users Added 4/5/21*

Actually the western world is suffering (most acutely in Ukraine) because of Putin and the likes of his fevered admirer Le Pen.

It's the remedial cohort who fall for the "them versus us" schtick that those cretins peddle to the chronically gullible.

Again, like I stated earlier it's a mental health crisis that should be treated as such and needs to be tackled.

How did you work that out?. Biden, who by some accounts on here, is totally ineffectutual given his advanced dementia, is somehow to blame for the state of the world despite him only being in the job 18 months?

When you say woke and leftist, do you mean those that challenge the conservatism that has been in rule for the vast majority of time? Bush Jr was not woke or leftist, and yet he presidended over a bungled war, surely that is far worse than a bungled withdrawal. Political appointments have always been on some bias, up until recently it was mainly being male and white, but Trump pushed that further by you having to pledge alliance to him.

What period do you think is 'normal' so this return to normality? Seems a bit like the MAGA movement, when people want things to go back to the way they were, just they can't say when or what they would be prepared to do without.

Ah yes, another Russian puppet. Just what the world needs at the time like this. Agitators, fascists, terrorists we want them all in power to improve our lot. Its always worked so well in the past. Can't think why we ever went away from it.

I take it all back, I don't see any trend really. We shouldn't measure governments in stock market returns.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/political-gridlock-is-supposed-to-be-good-for-stocks-the-data-dont-support-that-11604847910

Why are you linking to a November 2020 article? It is April 2022.

What data are you referring to exactly (article is paywalled)? I thought we were discussing Joe Biden's economy, right now, not the economy as it stood after election day.

I am discussing whether political parties can be attributed to stock market returns in response to a post which highlighted the performance of the sp500 during a period that included bidens presidency. Naturally that point is moot if there is no indicator that the control of presidency, house and by a specific party leads to higher stock market returns.

Furthermore the performance of the economy and the performance of the stock market are different things.

In case it needs to be said, I would have the same opinion for both parties, I just think that stock market returns are not a measure of the administration.

Sure value is a fundamental factor of a stock that you can calculate in your own propietry way using cash flows and assets and cost of capital and market risk for a particular stock. Returns are just that, dividends and capital gains based on stock price.

Yeah I hated it when trump would drone on about stock market performance, I wish all politicians would stop trying to indicate their positive influence on the markets.

Employment numbers, output, workforce participation %, purchasing price per Capita, wealth inequality, resilience to shock/resilient supply chains, scalable infrastructure are all good measures of an economy but stock price can soar or decline irrespective of these good economic indicators.

Lol. 6 thanks.

For absolute tripe.

No coherent, fact based criticism.

A usual drive-by fart of a post.

0/10.

just on the stocks, this is a huge issue with all members of us government and it'll take a brave president to put a stop to it (thats not a dig at biden BTW).

was reading that in 2021 only 3 hedge funds did better than the S&P500, out of about 3.5k hedge funds. 35 members of congress did better, republican's winning out by about a 60:40% over democrats. thats just my eye test with the top 20 winners.

it must be de facto insider trading, but no one seems to care or have the will to change it. i guess, even if politically divided on most issues, they are all on the same side when it comes to making money.

Fox will tell its viewers it's Biden's fault that millions of dollars of fruit & veg is rotting at the Texas border. And they'll believe it like the gullible fools they are.

Republicans tried to play dirty politics again and it failed..

Iowa Republicans tried to challenge Finkenauers signatures to register for the primary. As I understand it she got the precise amount of signatures - so they challenged 3, trying to disqualify her with their finger already on the state legal system. Grassley even boasted, that he gets 3 times as many signatures as required, as though he anticipates employing this tactic to unseat primary challengers who are not as politically conniving as career incumbents. Finkenauer is as of now the presumed challenger to Grassley's seat this November (but of course, polls are all bs).

And reportedly, Greg Abbot has given up on his fully transparent ploy to jeopardize US Trade with Mexico for PR stunting.

Of course, but nothing to report of late.