It has to be a tedious chore for liberal columnists to dredge up new ways to bash President Donald Trump every week.
Catherine Rampell (“Stocks not a marker for success,” PDN Jan. 11) offers another boring critique of Trumpian boasts about his performance generating new stock market records.
Yes, Catherine, there is a relationship between the stock market and the economy, but as any investor with an ounce of experience can tell you, the primary driver of stock market movement is corporate earnings, not presidential posturing.
Business-friendly policies create an investor-friendly stock market environment.
Duh.
If you want to write something meaningful, write about the last decade of dismal interest rates that placed a horrible tax on retired seniors who saved for their golden years.
Nothing there for former President Barack Obama to boast about.
Due to relentless Trump bashing, I stopped reading my former favorite columnist, Thomas Friedman.
His prior objective and interesting reporting on world issues has been replaced by raging anti-Trump rhetoric.
My new favorite is Pat Buchanan, who offers a credible, fact-based historic perspective without a frenetic bias.
Come on lefties, for God’s sake — give us a rest.
Bob Richey,
Sequim