May 19, 2022
The monster 1,160 point stock drop on the Dow Jones Industrial Average Wednesday, the highest drop since the advent of the pandemic in 2020 was kind of a ... nothingburger for the Biden White House.
According to the Washington Examiner:
Seems the Sleepy Joe White House is doing its sleeping. And why wouldn't they? The private sector is full of price gougers, tax cheats, hoarders, wreckers, and other bogeymen of the left. Of course they don't watch stocks, unless perhaps they are in Congress and there's some inside trading to be had. Joe, of course, watches money matters intensely too as a matter of feathering his nest, as the abandoned Hunter Biden laptop emails reveal.
Besides that, Biden has this pattern as the defining feature of his presidency -- ignoring events, dismissing anyone warning about them as a conspiracy theorist or callin the problem non-existent or all in our heads -- until it gets too big to ignore. We've seen this in Biden's organization of the Afghanistan pullout, in his COVID response, in his pathetic reaction to the rise in oil prices, in his handing of inflation -- transitory, rich man's problem, price gouging, Putin-did-it -- and in his current response to baby formula supply-chain and federal shutdown shortages. He's always reacting, always denying, and then always getting caught flat-footed.
Which is bad stuff, since stock prices are a hell of a lot more than presumed private sector badness for the White House to ignore. Yes, prices go up, and prices go down, and in recent years, there have been big swings.
But stocks also are anticipatory signals, forecasting what the market is expecting on the horizon -- in this case, recession, inflation, stagflation, supply chain issues, and an economy grinding to a halt.
Biden makes a big deal about reading all his fancy intelligence reports. But when news is right there in front of his face, well, Sleepy Joe goes back to sleep. Perhaps he'll get around to reading about it in a few days.
White House dismisses 1,160-point stock plunge as 'not something that we keep an eye on every day'
By Monica ShowalterThe monster 1,160 point stock drop on the Dow Jones Industrial Average Wednesday, the highest drop since the advent of the pandemic in 2020 was kind of a ... nothingburger for the Biden White House.
According to the Washington Examiner:
Seems the Sleepy Joe White House is doing its sleeping. And why wouldn't they? The private sector is full of price gougers, tax cheats, hoarders, wreckers, and other bogeymen of the left. Of course they don't watch stocks, unless perhaps they are in Congress and there's some inside trading to be had. Joe, of course, watches money matters intensely too as a matter of feathering his nest, as the abandoned Hunter Biden laptop emails reveal.
Besides that, Biden has this pattern as the defining feature of his presidency -- ignoring events, dismissing anyone warning about them as a conspiracy theorist or callin the problem non-existent or all in our heads -- until it gets too big to ignore. We've seen this in Biden's organization of the Afghanistan pullout, in his COVID response, in his pathetic reaction to the rise in oil prices, in his handing of inflation -- transitory, rich man's problem, price gouging, Putin-did-it -- and in his current response to baby formula supply-chain and federal shutdown shortages. He's always reacting, always denying, and then always getting caught flat-footed.
Which is bad stuff, since stock prices are a hell of a lot more than presumed private sector badness for the White House to ignore. Yes, prices go up, and prices go down, and in recent years, there have been big swings.
But stocks also are anticipatory signals, forecasting what the market is expecting on the horizon -- in this case, recession, inflation, stagflation, supply chain issues, and an economy grinding to a halt.
Biden makes a big deal about reading all his fancy intelligence reports. But when news is right there in front of his face, well, Sleepy Joe goes back to sleep. Perhaps he'll get around to reading about it in a few days.
