2 hours ago · Culture · 0 comments

While I don't want to downplay the importance of the rest of the video—you should listen to the whole thing—I did want to single out this one quote from the Financial Times.Just to be clear, what is being labeled Trump derangement syndrome is analysts reacting normally to bad news. The argument here is that the people who say we should price in that news are the ones who are deranged.I have long had the suspicion that the Trump cult of personality was influencing investors, particularly retail investors. There has long been an overlap between the Silicon Valley alt-right and the diamond hands/"we are the Spartans" traders on Robinhood. It is reassuring, if not comforting, to have these impressions backed up by reporting from a source as credible as the FT.This is also another reminder that with a Keynesian beauty contest, irrational behavior can become rational, at least for a time, if enough people do it. In this case, buy-the-dip crowds have created a self-fulfilling prophecy that…

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