The economy is strong and the stock markets continue their frenetic upward journeys. This is not very likely to change over the next 10 months, which means that it will prevail at and up to the 2020 Presidential election. What started as a recovery from the worst economic recession since The Great Depression during the 2nd half of Barak Obama’s first term, continued on into the 2016 election, which graced us with Donald Trump as our 45th President, as a full-on Bull Market. His tax cuts on corporate profits laced bull’s feed with copious amounts of amphetamines, which shifted the recovery into hyperdrive. The markets will, as they always do, correct themselves to more appropriate values, but like a speeding train, it takes some time to harness enough gravity for them to slow down. Trump’s economic policy pushed the Financial Markets to levels which far exceed the values of their underlying constituents, giving them much further to fall when the bubble bursts. The challenge is how to c
Last week, Chief Justice Roberts administered the oath to the Senate, duly empaneled to serve as jurors in the Impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump, President of the United States. It reads: “I solemnly swear or affirm, as the case that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald J. Trump, now pending, I will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws: so help me God.” The Senate promised the American People that in its dual role of Judg e and Jury, it will individually and collectively don the blindfold of impartiality and hold high the Scales of Justice as the Founders would have had it. NOT! The Senate’s Republican majority has already declared to all those concerned, that all charges against the President are unfounded, baseless and without merit. Republican Senators effectively hobbled the Impeachment process before its opening gavel. They swore an oath, knowing full well their intention break it before lifting their hands from a