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"What If?"

Via ConvergEx's Nick Colas,

Today we offer up five market counterfactuals – “What ifs” – to both illustrate why large cap U.S. equities just closed near their highest levels of 2016 and consider the conventional wisdom about whether the current rally is sustainable. 

 

Our home base: where asset prices and other trends started the year. 

 

Clinton’s San Diego Speech on Trump and Foreign Policy

Trevor Thrall comments on Clinton’s attack on Trump’s foreign policy views and qualifications:

In the end, Clinton is correct: Trump clearly does not possess the qualifications or the temperament to lead the United States. Unfortunately, Clinton’s critique leaves voters with only a “less bad” alternative to Trump rather than with a compelling vision of America’s role in the world.

Hillary Isn’t a Lock

After losing the race for president in 2008, Hillary made plans to ensure that never happened again.

She believed—no, she was certain—that history had chosen her to be the first woman president of the United States. All the years of acting the role of First Lady, all the public humiliation with Bill’s sex life strewn across TV, it would all finally pay off.

Sorry Hillary: Former Clinton Advisor Thinks Joe Biden May Be The Nominee

Sorry Hillary: Former Clinton Advisor Thinks Joe Biden May Be The Nominee

By Douglas Schoen, former political adviser and pollster for President Bill Clinton in the years1994-2000. Originally posted in the WSJ

Clinton Might Not Be the Nominee

There is now more than a theoretical chance that Hillary Clinton may not be the Democratic nominee for president.

How could that happen, given that her nomination has been considered a sure thing by virtually everyone in the media and in the party itself? Consider the possibilities.

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