"Janet's With Her" - The Fed & Politics

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The stock market – where shares in profit-making companies are exchanged – went up again. Does this mean the outlook for making money is improving? Does this presage higher dividends for the stockholders? What, exactly, do investors expect?

Partisan politics is for the most part a distraction, maintaining the illusion of choice for the public.

More of the same, is our guess. Hillary in her Heaven. Yellen on her throne. And now, Fed Governor Lael Brainard is said to have the inside track for the top job at the Department of the Treasury. Wait a minute…

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