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« on: January 06, 2017, 12:25:18 PM »
How many times did we hear that during the election. I heard or read it many, many times. I read people on this forum and others say they were voting for Hillary because they thought the market would tumble if Trump gets elected. I personally know 3 or 4 people that didn't vote for Trump for that reason. Even I doubted whether voting for Trump would lead to a market crash. After all, if all the "experts" on TV were saying so, there must be something to it.
But deep down, I didn't believe it. Oh, I thought there might be a temporary dip, but as his policies kicked in, we would see real growth again. But that didn't happen. There was no temporary dip (except for a few hours before the results were announced). Just the promises of lower taxes and less suffocating regulations has created new investment and jobs and market returns.
So my question is: How many people did NOT vote for Trump because of the bearish market predictions if he won? Or put another way, how many more votes would Trump have have gotten if that rubbish hadn't been pushed by the MSM, including MarkZ's paramount of virtue, CNN.
I think that one piece of "fake news" had more impact that the hacked DNC emails did.