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All through the weekend, the news was filled with folks trying to interpret Trump’s mysterious remark about how “only one thing will work” when dealing with North Korea (and it isn’t diplomacy). It seems the only logical interpretation would be “attack them”…..
As we close out September, the bearish month of the year (ha! woo ha! ha ha ha!) and, in turn, the third quarter, let’s see where the big indexes stand percentage-wise in 2017. Here’s the Dow Composite:
Any time someone tries to tell you that September is a bearish month………just punch them.
A good friend of mine (a Sloper from Mexico, and a very cool fellow overall) sent me the chart below, which illustrates the biggest drop in the S&P 500 for any given year, going way back to when Teddy Roosevelt was in office. In case anyone didn’t mention it to you already, 2017 is the most godawful year so far (for bears) in that entire century, since its drawdown is the puniest ever.
