Someone posted a retort to one of my comments a couple of weeks ago that is in line with this. And that is, every-time Obama didn't get all he wanted or lost with a piece of legislation the markets rallied. I don't have the data to support it, but it may ring true. So their is an underlying desire to engage in commerce, we have no choice w/ him or without him it will go on.
In terms of the ingenuity, I have been a bit sour on this "3D Printing" revolution, I know enough about metallurgy to be dangerous and couldn't see it for a host of reasons. However, a post here in FR this week on a breakthrough on Titanium production, seeing the CEO of DDD on TV, and that fact that this Titanium can be printed, ( and an application of "powdered aluminum" that has me stunned ) and printing in the Jet Turbine arena makes me wonder if more is going on than can be talked about.
Tangent to this I have been doing some reading on a DOE funding project to make Auto Fuel Tanks that carry CNG and not be the cylindrical space gobblers they are with the 2 enabling technologies being a low cost lower pressure pump and an absorbent medium in the tank to increase capacity by 30%. This would allow the current CNG infrastructure, i.e. the natural gas coming to your home to be the fueling delivery system so that you could fill up at home!
Obama can't stop these paradigm changing technologies ( including the Fracking Revolution ), let us hope his administration doesn't become so onerous that they decide to go off shore.....
I’m starting to get concerned about my Proctor & Gamble stock. I don’t know what’s going on with it. It’s not low but it’s down more than it seems like it should be. My 401K pension is in a separate account that is low risk and it’s doing fine but my P&G stock pension is not doing well and I can’t see why. I’m not a financial expert though. I retired early and draw a small income from my 401K but I don’t bother my P&G stock account. I retired early at 58 last July. I plan to find one of those barely above minimum wage for retiree part time jobs this spring or summer. :-)