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Good Morning Middle America, your King of Simple News is on the job.

U.S. NEWS: Financial news yesterday displayed the joke of the day with the following headlines:

Just above these headlines, the main header title was, Stocks Surge to Start Q2!

As Larry the Cable Guy says, "Now that there's funny, I don't care who you are."

And, stocks really did surge, with the DOW rising nearly 400 points. Imagine how high the markets may have gone if for instance, Celent (a research firm) would have had some good news such as "Only 100,000 U.S. Banking Jobs at Risk." There's no telling how far these markets could soar if the bank had only written off $10 Billion.

So why are the markets up with all of this bad news? Several reasons, one is that many people were expecting the headlines to read, "America is broke and everyone is going to die." What we have here is comparable good news.

Interpretation is the key. What the news really said is that "America is broke and half of the people are going to die." Most people just assume that they are in the half that isn't going to die and therefore, "Mary, I just read where the neighbors on both sides of us are going to kick the bucket."

Since we are already in la-la land, let's talk about Hillary Clinton. The good Senator is promising the people in the industrial mid west that she will bring back the jobs. Now, those people in the mid west surely know that Mr. Clinton ushered in both NAFTA and the WTO, which allowed their jobs to migrate to other countries. So why would they back Mrs. Clinton?

They do so because Mrs. Clinton is lying and the other candidates aren't lying as much. That's how we chose presidents in the U.S. Those who promise the most and demand the least...win.

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Mike Folkerth is the author of "The Biggest Lie Ever Believed" and is not your run-of-the-mill author of finance and economics. The former real estate broker, developer, private real estate fund manager, auctioneer, Alaskan bush pilot, (more...)
 
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