Markets Don’t Care About the Yard Sign

The market didn’t suddenly become a voting booth with a tie clip. It’s just the same old campaign superstition: if the numbers go up while your guy is in office, you call it leadership; if they go down, you call it sabotage, weather, socialism, or a bad vibe from the Federal Reserve.

That’s the whole hustle here. Political cheerleaders want credit for gains they didn’t mint and amnesia for losses they absolutely helped set on fire. One side keeps renting the economy like it’s a tailgate tent, the other side keeps pretending the tent is a temple, and meanwhile regular people are stuck paying the service fee, the cleanup fee, and the emotional damage surcharge. Capitalism is not a mascot. It’s a bill with polling data stapled to it.