The US deficit is NOT caused by the behaviour of non-US trade partners

Don't care.

Nothing that I or you or elan or any of the other posters here thinks makes any difference. We're just yelling at the sky.

We cannot control the situation, and we have zero input to whoever does control the situation.
We can only control what we do, and history has shown that investing with emotions and/or political opinion is an overall losing situation. This doesn't count those who live in Lake Woebegone, of course.

These debates are as useless as college dorm room bull sessions. But they keep our blood flowing, so that's a win I guess.

A wise man once said, "There are only two kinds of investors: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know."

"The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them." - Peter Lynch

1/4th of the people hate Trump, 1/4th of the people like Trump, 50% of the people seem to remember that somebody named Trump had a reality TV show.