{"id":35196,"date":"2019-02-01T01:53:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T01:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35196"},"modified":"2019-02-01T01:53:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T01:53:44","slug":"how-about-that-djia-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35196","title":{"rendered":"How about that DJIA, Mr. POTUS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/th-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34422\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/th-2-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/th-2-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/th-2.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump keeps telling us about his business acumen and, I presume, his wisdom about big-ticket market activity.<\/p>\n<p>So, why does he keep yapping about something that has happened dozens of times while he has been president?<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted self-congratulations when the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 25,000 points. He did the same thing a year ago. He&#8217;s done it several times.<\/p>\n<p>The DJIA has this cyclical aspect to it. The Dow goes up. It goes down. The president is delighted to tell us when the Dow climbs. He falls into a Twitter stupor when it plummets.<\/p>\n<p>How active was Trump when the Dow was cratering though much of December 2018? We heard the proverbial crickets.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Dow is back up. Trump is all over it. He&#8217;s taking credit he doesn&#8217;t deserve. In actuality, that doesn&#8217;t bother me so much any longer. What&#8217;s annoying is that a guy with all those business smarts (allegedly) is getting worked up over a recurring fiscal event.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump keeps telling us about his business acumen and, I presume, his wisdom about big-ticket market activity. So, why does he keep yapping about something that has happened dozens of times while he has been president? He tweeted self-congratulations when the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 25,000 points. He did the same thing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35196\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How about that DJIA, Mr. POTUS?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7281,1424,6379,7559],"class_list":["post-35196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","tag-djia","tag-donald-trump","tag-dow-jones","tag-stock-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35197,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35196\/revisions\/35197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}