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The markets are completely misreading the Trump Presidency.

Since Trump won the election, the $USD has surged above 100.

The consensus view is that Trump’s Presidency will continue to maintain a strong $USD. This view is beyond incorrect. The surge in the $USD has in fact been based on the Bank of Japan taking advantage of the window between the election and Obama leaving office to aggressively devalue the Yen.

You can see this playing out with the S&P 500 tracking the USD/Yen pair almost tick for tick from election night.

In the educational piece titled "Is Bitcoin Too Risky? Whenever the Bitcoin is Mentioned in Financial Pop Media, Ignorance Ensues," I reviewed the many misconceptions that "so-called" professional investment types had about bitcoin, its relative risks and rewards. I called out the Financial Times, the London Business School and Money Magazine as basically not knowing what they hell they were talking about. Now, we will take the analysis a step further for those investors who want to get their feet a little more than just wet.

The President is pleased...

Great! #Dow20K https://t.co/wXFhXBLgag

— President Trump (@POTUS) January 25, 2017

With China growing increasingly nervous about the prospect of a trade war with the US, the nation's official mouthpiece People's Daily warned that a trade war between China and the United States would harm both countries, reflecting concerns over Trump's stated protectionist, anti-China stance. 

The day the Dow crosses 20,000 may finally be here, because with DJIA futures trading 65 points higher in premarket trading, added to yesterday's close of 19,912 and latest record high in the S&P, it means that all it will take is a modest of only 25 points for the critical Dow threshold to be finally breached. Celebrating the upcoming record, world stocks hit a 19-month high on Wednesday, lifted by strong Japanese trade data, strong European company earnings and hopes that U.S. President Donald Trump will press ahead with a large fiscal spending package.