Macro Economic View

[RunInRed 18,632]

Deficits are falling, unemployment is falling, home values are going up, GDP is growing, stock market and net worth is rising ...

<insert pessimist viewpoint> GO!

[telling tiger 156]

Housing inventory is shrinking and home values are rising, BUT, I'm sure on this board he is still a Kenyan.

[RunInRed 18,632]

I just want to know if we're going to credit Newt and the House Republicans when we hit a balanced budget ... wait, wrong decade, my bad

[telling tiger 156]

I wonder if Trump understands he benefits from increased property valuations? If he does, maybe he can explain it in the next empty room speech he gives at CPAC.

[augolf1716 21,998]

yes sir we're on the right path for sure.. as the great Country Joe said in a song whoopee

[telling tiger 156]

Beats the hell out of a Wall Street and Main Street meltdown, we 've been there recently too. We're you happier then?

[augolf1716 21,998]

_{What the heck did I say? We're on the right path!}

[telling tiger 156]

Yankee fans are grouchy old poots. You'll fit in perfectly with this political forum. I believe there was sense of sarcasm in your first post. lol.

[augolf1716 21,998]

As a proud and true Yankee fan I can take say it may or may not have been sarcasm. As for the stock market I'm as happy as a lark my portfolio is looking good. And yes I can be a little grouchy at times especially in the morning walking a certain dog.

Also glad I got out of the building/construction investment business when I did..

[telling tiger 156]

Well, if you were in that business, to not expect fluctuations to follow certain trends is short sighted, it takes a different kind of financial planning in a business that requires that you be more exposed to business expansion/contraction and spending cycles. Steinbrenner would have known that. Many fortunes have been made and lost in construction and construction investment. Not new. Heidi would know this, ask her.

[Grumps 3,706]

I absolutely think that things are better than they have been. I give the current administration credit for anything that it has done (except spend money needlessly) to make things suck less.

[augolf1716 21,998]

^{Like I said I got out at the right time. Thank goodness.. lucky for me not short sighted. Guess that Auburn education did work}

[telling tiger 156]

Deep pockets needed for that business and an extremely long range view. Not everyone is cut out for that.

[autigeremt 7,251]

Glad it's starting to turn. Of course, the administration is a mass mafia driven to use every possible agency to destroy it's political opposition (or anyone who opposes it) but hey, it's all good. No worries. Show me the money!

[homersapien 12,286]

_{What the heck did I say? We're on the right path!}

I think he was referring to the "and we're all going to die" part.

But you are correct on that, too.

[homersapien 12,286]

^{Like I said I got out at the right time. Thank goodness.. lucky for me not short sighted. Guess that Auburn education did work}

Famous last words of a self-styled expert in "market timing".

[homersapien 12,286]

Glad it's starting to turn. Of course, the administration is a mass mafia driven to use every possible agency to destroy it's political opposition (or anyone who opposes it) but hey, it's all good. No worries. Show me the money!

But is he still better than the Taliban?

[augolf1716 21,998]

_{What the heck did I say? We're on the right path!}

I think he was referring to the "and we're all going to die" part.

But you are correct on that, too.

Don't thing so cause TT knows Country Joe very well but it could be the spelling part....give me a

[augolf1716 21,998]

^{Like I said I got out at the right time. Thank goodness.. lucky for me not short sighted. Guess that Auburn education did work}

Famous last words of a self-styled expert in "market timing".

very true lucky guy that I am "market timing"

[telling tiger 156]

Lol. Hey, I know Heidi, too

[augolf1716 21,998]

[autigeremt 7,251]

Glad it's starting to turn. Of course, the administration is a mass mafia driven to use every possible agency to destroy it's political opposition (or anyone who opposes it) but hey, it's all good. No worries. Show me the money!

But is he still better than the Taliban? :laugh:/>

Hate to say....he uses similar tactics to get what he wants without the be headings,

[Vegaseagle1 8]

Deficits are falling, unemployment is falling, home values are going up, GDP is growing, stock market and net worth is rising ...

<insert pessimist viewpoint> GO!

Yep, amazing what you can do by printing money.... wait for it.... wait for it.... Boom , here comes the inflation.

[homersapien 12,286]

Glad it's starting to turn. Of course, the administration is a mass mafia driven to use every possible agency to destroy it's political opposition (or anyone who opposes it) but hey, it's all good. No worries. Show me the money!

But is he still better than the Taliban? :laugh:/>

Hate to say....he uses similar tactics to get what he wants without the be headings,

Well be-headings would represent a HUGE amount of political power.

Other than, that, I think you just described politics.

[telling tiger 156]

Deficits are falling, unemployment is falling, home values are going up, GDP is growing, stock market and net worth is rising ...

<insert pessimist viewpoint> GO!

Yep, amazing what you can do by printing money.... wait for it.... wait for it.... Boom , here comes the inflation.

Actually forecast for inflation have dropped by a slight percentage and interest rates are slightly rising, the rates are rising faster than economist expected. 11 year record shows the rhetoric of inflation fear mongers hasn't changed, but somehow they cannot figure out inflation hasn't changed much either,. Funny how that works. BOOM. http://www.washingto...ld-be-thrilled/ The rhetoric just doesn't match recorded reality. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi