Currently we are running with the bulls, but they are beginning to tire just as most people get into the race.  Many of us remember the 1987 Crash, the Dot.Com Crash, and the Great Recession.  In between these investment disasters have been retreats, retrenchments and pullbacks.

Sometimes the stock market goes up like a child’s rocket and other times like a Saturn V.  This time we have another Saturn V.  It feels somewhat like the great time before the Dot.Com Crash when my broker wasn’t available and wouldn’t return my calls.

One thing all investors should know and remember is no matter which rocket we are riding, it will not go into orbit.  Gravity always exerts its influence and brings the investments down.  Bonds usually fall slowly but stocks can move downward extremely fast.  Mutual funds and Exchange Traded Stocks move just as fast as the stocks on which they are based but are slower to get out of.

Some people will ride the bear down to the bottom and slowly climb back up.  It’s called a bear market until it reaches the old highs.  Others will see it coming and go to cash so they buy back in at a much lower level.

Whether you invest directly, through your IRA, or your 401K, the market will fall and rise again sooner or later.  No rocket can achieve orbit and will, sooner or later, fall back to earth no matter what a President says or does.  Rising markets create a measure of euphoria whether or not a person is invested so they buy things.  When it falls, people stop buying and this often creates a recession.  Booming economics are always followed by recessions because orbit is not possible.

Where are those Bible-thumping conservative Republicans when we need them? They are in the pockets of the extremely rich of the world. I say world because in a global economy, the investors around the world own pieces of our stocks, bonds, real estate, and other financial instruments.

Haven’t they read how we are supposed to be saving up during the good years so we have money during the bad years? When the Democrats are in power those conservatives complain about the deficits and debt. Now they are pushing a tax reform that they admit will increase both. Even in their rosiest predictions we will go another $150-200 billion a year farther in the hole. Shouldn’t we be cutting our debt like President Clinton and speaker Gingrich did? The debt started ballooning again with Bush IIs tax cuts. Then when the Great Recession hit he had blown the savings and we had no choice but dump debt money into the system.

Phony reform which supposedly is for the middle class which really saves the rich billions is a deception to get re-elected by suckers. The money that keeps them in office comes from those millionaires and billionaires directly or through the many non-profits they use as fronts. The Koch’s Cabal’s businesses will save tens of billions.

Their Bibles must be very thin because they have removed so much that conflicts with their deplorable ethics. It seems like the money changers are in charge in our country. All other countries take care of their people but we get trickle down voodoo economics. When will we get tired of being trickled on and vote them out? Our supposed national debt is now over $21,000,000,000,000 and the hidden maybe twice as much.