Trump Has Real Reasons to Fixate Over the Stock Market
- Study finds a measurable tie between share returns and voting
- ‘An opportunity for politicians to cater through this channel’
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No president in modern history has followed the stock market more obsessively as a barometer of success than Donald Trump. You can see it in the dozens of tweets he’s sent referencing the Dow Jones Industrial Average, in the way every record is celebrated while lurches are pinned on the Democrats.
Turns out, he might actually be onto something.