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Stick With Numbers When Judging Trump's Rally
Anything else is just story-telling in the interest of scoring political points.
Where ideas about stocks often start.
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Whenever I write about anything with even a vague political component, I always get the strangest correspondence. Much of it is unpublishable and sometimes amusing, and usually worthy of nothing more than a Twitter block. And yet these missives offer something useful about one of my favorite subjects: Why our brains are not wired for finance.
That was the case last week, when President Donald Trump tweeted the following: “It would be really nice if the Fake News Media would report the virtually unprecedented Stock Market growth since the election.”