Make Money Great Again: Vote for Gold
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Who could possibly have predicted the astounding results of the November 8th presidential election?
A lot of folks, it turns out. Better than 60 million at last count. But that doesn’t include highly paid, and obviously over-paid, pollsters.
And it doesn’t include “journalists,” who showered their elitist agendas on television screens, in newsprint headlines and across cyberspace during the 17-month presidential campaign.
In short, those posing as experts predicting the future blew it. And they blew it “big league,” both before and after the election.
“No question – markets are going to tank all over the world,” said top experts at Yahoo Finance, during online, streaming coverage election night.
Stock markets instead went straight up for two days before modestly retreating.
Yahoo was not alone with that post-election financial advice. True to form, every business reporter in town got it dead wrong.
Curiously, not one dared repeat Trump’s constant drumbeat to his supporters – “stay out of this dangerous stock market!”
Trump’s politically-incorrect bond with his supporters was aptly captured by columnist Peggy Noonan.
There was no state-of-the-art get-out-the-vote effort—his voters got themselves out. There was no high-class, high-tech identifying of supporters—they identified themselves. It somehow makes it more beautiful that few saw it coming.
Donald Trump’s victory in the face of pitifully wrong predictions is historic, but far from unique or unprecedented, despite what press and pundits would have you believe.
The 1948 Chicago Daily Tribune headline “Dewey Defeats Truman” has been the poster child for 68 years for deplorable journalism and pathetic polling.
Now, Newsweek has taken the Dumb & Dumber Award for its cover sporting a smiling Hillary Clinton as “Madam President.” That issue was planned, printed and distributed days before the election.
Quickly recalled, surviving copies are going for hundreds on eBay as collector items.
Dead Wrong Pollsters… You’re Fired!
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