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All right, folks, the big day has arrived, and your champion and hero is ready to get to work. Just so you can check them off as they are accomplished, here are the specific promises made about what’s going to happen on DAY ONE. Get those markers ready! It’s clearly going to be a very busy day.
As for myself, I will keep my mouth shut until the time is right.
I get it. I honestly do.
When Donald Trump was inaugurated on Friday, January 20, 2017, it began yet another leg of a 40-year bull market which was stopped short only by Covid-19 three full years later. For the entirety of his first term, however, the Trump market didn’t have a downtick in sight (not even during the traditionally bearish autumn season, in which it just got stronger).
Thus, it makes plenty of sense that people would think that the S&P will be at, I dunno, 8,000 points by the end of the year 2025.
Following the Trump win, some very specific companies that were seen as aligned with mass deportations went roaring higher. One prosperous sector was private prisons, and the gains are still coming, most particularly with Geo Group (GEO):
This is one of the best interviews I’ve seen in at least a year (although he gets Elon’s wealth wrong by a factor of 8!) I highly recommend a listen!
