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Stock market indeces, like GDP, are a horrible way to measure success of a nation, so don’t take this as support of the pedophile rapist Donald Trump - but the stock market is doing fine. The 5% drop it had last week comes at the end of a whole year of constant growth, and even now the Dow is still 13% up from this time last year.

Making an overly big deal of short term dips only feeds into the myth that the stock market is a valid measure of a president’s ability. If you blame Trump for the crash it keeps the door open for people to praise him for its record highs. Don’t play their game.