Re:Emmanuel Macron presidency prompts French startup boom
by douche on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:19PM
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It's been great for my 401k, though. The best months in the past ten years were November 2016 and January 2017.
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Re:Emmanuel Macron presidency prompts French startup boom
by quantdev on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:31PM
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Those gains were most likely based on the anticipation of tax cuts (increasing consumer spending and the supply of investable capital), deregulation (allowing higher profits, most notably by banks), and repatriation (allowing share buy backs).
So far, none of those has happened and it remains to be seen if they will. If they don't, I don't expect a market decline, but just a smaller total cumulative growth since November that has nothing to do with Trump's election or the general agenda I outlined above.
Re:Emmanuel Macron presidency prompts French startup boom
by astrange on Thursday June 15, 2017 @09:14PM
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Tax cuts on the rich don't increase consumer spending, since rich people don't spend all their money (proof: they're rich).
Although this is a popular theory, mostly promoted by the people who don't want to pay taxes.