How Will Your Life Change if..........
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@Aqua-Letifer said in How Will Your Life Change if..........:
@Nunatax said in How Will Your Life Change if..........:
@xenon said in How Will Your Life Change if..........:
I’m hoping it’s Biden, because he’s super boring. I’m tired of news about the President.
Lol! As a Belgian, I can only agree. I long for the time when I can open the newspaper without Trump being the first thing I see. Even with the Belgian government formation (which was truly a ridiculous circus show), Trump was usually a bigger headline. He certainly made (some) Belgian newspapers great again!
I know you're probably not going to want to hear this, but you might want Trump in office for exactly that reason. He's a perfect scapegoat because he keeps better people from being ousted and making the front page. The outrage isn't going to go away once he's out of office. It's going to move on to other people, many of whom are going to be far less deserving of public ridicule, but they're going to get it anyway and they're not going to have Trump's protections.
If that keeps happening to the same extent with others as it’s been happening with Trump for the past years, I guess I’ll just stop reading newspapers altogether. It’s getting boring and tiresome.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in How Will Your Life Change if..........:
Since you bring it up, let's look at that, okay?
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Dead certainties if Biden is elected...
- My taxes will go up.
- My Second Amendment rights will be infringed.
- My slide into second class citizen - since I am Caucasian - will be accelerated.
- My state's economy will be severely impacted as Biden chokes down the oil and gas industry.
- My next car will cost a good bit more, as Biden tightens fuel standards.
- Most importantly, the country's laws will continue a leftist shift, as Biden nominated activist judges to the bench.
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@taiwan_girl said in How Will Your Life Change if..........:
How about you guys? How will your life change?
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I am worried I will have to work longer if my retirement savings go in the toilet.
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I am worried that in my last 20-30 years on this earth I will have to go to re-education camp.
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@Kincaid I know history is not a prediction of the future, but why do you think #1 is worrying ? There was an interesting discussion a week or so ago on this. My statement was that historically, on average, measures of the economy did not show a major difference between Presidents. In fact, historical stock market returns are higher under Democrat’s than Republics.
The US system seems to move Presdients to the center.
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There's no way they'll bother re-educating Kincaid at his age. It's the soylent green farms for him.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@taiwan_girl said in How Will Your Life Change if..........:
In fact, historical stock market returns are higher under Democrat’s than Republics.
Do you know why? Hint : it's not because a Democrat got in office...
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@Larry said in How Will Your Life Change if..........:
@taiwan_girl said in How Will Your Life Change if..........:
In fact, historical stock market returns are higher under Democrat’s than Republics.
Do you know why? Hint : it's not because a Democrat got in office...
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@Doctor-Phibes said in How Will Your Life Change if..........:
There's no way they'll bother re-educating Kincaid at his age. It's the soylent green farms for him.
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@taiwan_girl said in How Will Your Life Change if..........:
@Kincaid I know history is not a prediction of the future, but why do you think #1 is worrying ? There was an interesting discussion a week or so ago on this. My statement was that historically, on average, measures of the economy did not show a major difference between Presidents. In fact, historical stock market returns are higher under Democrat’s than Republics.
The US system seems to move Presdients to the center.
The bear markets and the great recession might not care what president is at the helm, but I am in a place where if another 2008 followed by another "Obama" recovery happened I would be living very poor indeed in 10 years. IIRC, it took about 6 or 8 years for my 401k to get back to where it was in 2008 after it was cut in half or worse.
Also, it seems to me the timing has just been unlucky for Republican Presidents. If 9/11 had happened in the last year of Clinton's presidency, if the dot.com boom had ramped up a couple years later, if Clinton's policies hadn't overheated the housing market setting up the 2008 fall...
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@Kincaid , my guy at Fidelity says that, in the long run, the markets don't care about who's in the office. What they care about is 1) stability, 2) predictability.
If they can know what's going to happen, they can deal with it. If they can't predict, they hope it stays the same.
Don't know if that's totally true or not, but it makes sense.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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We're still paying for Iraq,.
Some people paid quite a bit more, obviously.
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@George-K said in How Will Your Life Change if..........:
@Kincaid , my guy at Fidelity says that, in the long run, the markets don't care about who's in the office. What they care about is 1) stability, 2) predictability.
If they can know what's going to happen, they can deal with it. If they can't predict, they hope it stays the same.
Don't know if that's totally true or not, but it makes sense.
Agree 100%. At the other forum board, I mentioned that I had one time had a conversation with the head of PTT organization in Thailand. This is a global Fortune 100 company. We were talking about oil prices and politics and how they affect business. And he basically said as George says - stability is more important than the actual who is in power.
If they have a sense of that the next future years will be the same as the current, that is most important.
