Smart Thought Of The Week: You’ve-Got-To-Be-Kidding-Me

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Fat chance.\nTraders and investors alike think that the promised money will come rolling in when tariffs are slapped on Chinese-made goods as soon as he steps foot in the White House. They think that tax cuts will happen immediately.\nThey think that the power of cryptocurrencies will be unleashed even before the president takes the oath of office. They believe that millions of undocumented immigrants will be rounded up and sent back from whence they came. They even think that vaccines will be banned and fluoride will be removed from drinking water on the first day of the new presidency.\nThink again. Sure, the Republican Party has control over the three branches of US government, namely legislative, executive and judicial. He also has de facto control of an influential social media platform. But there is something that he doesn’t and cannot control – the bond market.\nBond investors have already made their views clear. 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