Posted on 10/26/2016 4:02:42 AM PDT by expat_panama
Some observers have noted that recent IBD/TIPP Poll results seem to show something surprising: Among investors, Hillary Clinton holds a hefty 47% to 39% lead over billionaire businessman Donald Trump, even though it's always assumed the GOP has a lock on the investment class. Has a permanent shift taken place, or is something else at work?
Framed another way, Hillary Clinton's plans for trillions of dollars in new spending, higher taxes and more regulation surely don't constitute a welcome mat for investors. So why do they support her?...
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Given that, why would investors still side with Hillary over Donald?
For many investors, Trump's attacks on free trade and the Trans Pacific Partnership...
...there are likely some who are cynical enough — and probably rightly so — to note that Hillary Clinton, just like her husband and former President Bill Clinton, talks like a raving left-wing populist in her public speeches, but in fact has tight money ties to Wall Street — in particular Goldman Sachs, but others too.
Snippets of Clinton's banal speeches to Wall Street investment banks, delivered at $250,000 a pop, show she poses little if any real threat to those investment banks she often bashes in public speeches. As the WikiLeaks email dumps of her Wall Street speeches plainly show, she's not an Occupy Wall Street supporter by any means. Investors across the country know this.
So, no, investors aren't infatuated with Hillary. Nor do they necessarily think she will be a great president. But some investors do fear the big unknowns of a Trump presidency, especially since he's never held an elective office before. And that just might be enough to make them vote for the other candidate.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
its pretty simple- they like free trade and illegal labor as it keeps costs down and profits up...stopping these trade deals and forcing them to put Americans to work will hurt their bottom lines...
granted- its the best thing for the country but they don’t care...
Stock Investors have benefited over the last 10 years from easy money.
Some of us fear the KNOWNS of a Clinton Presidency!
Because the easy money will dry up quickly as the Economy diversifies from Wall Street driven profit machines to longer term methods.
Its easy..as long as interest rates are near zero like Hillary will keep them at..the phony markets and 401ks will continue to rise..until they dont
This whole stock market is the biggest scam in the history of the world..the fed has destroyed america but the Facebooks are sky high
The scorpion and the frog.
The do NOT like free trade. They like sweetheart deals, which is what the TPP is.
Duh. Crony capitalism? It ain’t betting when the race is rigged.
They like easy money and open borders.
Investors are already in the market. They have invested in the status quo. They have invested in the companies that benefit from rent seeking corporatism.
Trump presents a new risk that is not factored into their investments. Will Trump (and Congress) significantly reduce rent seeking corporatism? Will Trump shift resources from current government contracts to spending on different priorities? Or even to reduce government spending on government contracts?
Investors don’t like chaos. And they certainly don’t like the thought that their cushy back door dealings might come to an end
Good one
Elites can buy Hillary - - buy her so she’ll throw advantages to them.
I’m amazed, and disheartened, at the narrow focus of some FReeper comments. Easy money and free trade are only 2 factors among dozens of factors.
Check out the “Government contracts” section of IBM, Oracle, GE, and all of the S&P. Check out how the non-government sections of these companies service the government sections, and vice versa.
For example, how many of the S&P get significant contracts from Obamacare money? I hope FReepers have not bought the propaganda that Obamacare is about helping the poor.
Obamacare is about big money grants to Healthcare providers, to insurance companies, to IT companies, and to the many other companies that sub-contract from the prime recipients.
FReepers would be outraged if the realized how much government money goes to TATA/TCS, Infosys and other h1b body shops.
But FReepers should also be outraged at how much taxpayer money goes to Universities and non-profit and for-profit American companies as bribes to buy their political donations and PR support for big government.
You have just believed the democrat propaganda
With $17 trillion in private retirement accounts floating around, Wall Street can’t wait for Hillary to grab that money. While a lot of that money may be in Big Bank/Investment Firm’s coffers already...actual control of the money will be taken from the individual owners and given to the Friends of Hillary. That’ll be a nice reward for their support
The cornerstone of TPP is open borders ...
Absolutely....... directly from one of the big guns mouth........
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