Congrats to those that didnt listen to Krugman, Summers & the other Liberal blabber heads & invested correctly over the last 12 months, hopefully the Dodgers can bounce back tonight so we can really celebrate along with our record highs.
Please don't give Liberalism a bad rap. All American politicians are self-described free marketeers,* save Bernie Sanders who is the only progressive happy with the moniker "socialist." (There, I was able to type what I cannot say without a knee jerk—socialist. Edit: I do have a tic now.) Liberals trace their origins to the victory of the merchant class over the landed gentry in England in the early to middle 19th century. Our new gentry is the top 10 percent who are classic Liberals an "un-landed gentry." They are quite happy to have a developer and his lackeys run the country. And you haven't seen the end of it yet, although it is beginning, because the worker bees are organizing. Wait until the attack on Mueller goes full on! That won't happen until the tax cut for corporations, at least, is in the bag.
As a certified blabber head, I am long Tsla and was able to buy another 50 shares this year due to a mistake my more free market oriented wealth manager made. He is right, however, to caution by moving us slowly into more cash anticipating the vulnerability of the market to a full-blown kakistocracy. Lest you think me harsh, please answer a question I and many others have. Why does the Federal Office of Emergency Management refuse to show its hurricane disaster plan prepared in other administrations for Puerto Rico but apparently is not ashamed to show it for Hawaii? Just a question. Seeking answers. Sorry, I think, obviously mistakenly, that I am a fact-based blabber head. Nice phrase, by the way. Spiro Adnew had a more alliterative one. "Nattering nabobs of negatism." And you know what happened to that vice-president who continued to receive payoffs in his White House office for favors to contractors during his stint as governor of Maryland.
*See Gary Wills, Nixon Agonistes, for a beautiful history of Liberalism and its core tenet, free markets.