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Posted on 08/22/2025 7:25:43 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
MarketWatch.com | Dow Jones Industrial Average Last Updated: Last Updated: Aug 22, 2025 at 10:24 a.m. EDT 45,457.76 672.26 1.50% Previous Close 44,785.50
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But Tariffs...... /s
DOW 50k
In other words, the dollar is becoming worth less and less.
One natural consequence of printing money, expanding M2 money supply, can easily pump the stock market.
It’s the Dot-Com boom all over again. Only question is, when will the inevitable bust come?
$10k in the last hour alone. Care to guess how much I’ve got?
I’m just about at the point, where I think I’ll just take my gains, and sit it out for awhile.
$18 million.
Signaling interest rate cuts.
About 43,000 just about puts it even, on an inflation adjusted basis with the end of 2021.
In the world of rate of return 50,000 is not much of a stretch, only about 11% away, and a 25% loss is a big number needing a 33% gain to recover. When the index is this high you get some wild numbers fast. In three years at 8% it goes to nearly 60,000.
Once upon a time we said that the market sought to return to the mean of about 8% growth over the long haul.
Math can be a troublesome thing and compound interest was fascinating even to Einstein or so it is claimed.
That's utter nonsense. The DJIA hit 45,071 back in NOV. Today with the new high (for the moment) shows the market up barely 500 points... barely 1.1%... in more than half a year. That's a rather lame rate of growth... and yet in your imagination, even slow growth is diminishing the value of the dollar??
Please explain to us how the dollar has been the greatest and strongest monetary unit on earth for 100+ years, alongside incredible economic growth, if growth means a weaker dollar.
DOW gains are illusory, giving us investors a false sense of wealth. Fact is, $1 in 1913 with the creation of the FED is worth 3 cents today. So, yeah... of course the stock market can seem like it is zooming to the moon.
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