Markets Cheer Democracy's Main Feature: Doing Less
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Voters, dissatisfied with the economy and the war in Iran, handed Democrats both chambers [S1]. Trump accepted the losses [S1]; JD Vance, notably, distanced himself from the war [S3]. The world's verdict? The Dow jumped 3.03% and Treasuries rallied because Washington might now do less [S3, S6]. That's the day's tell: we've stopped asking whether democracy works and started asking whether it suppresses volatility. Relief that $5,000 handouts won't materialise is real [S4], but so is the $40 trillion debt nobody voted for [S4]. Tesla and SpaceX slid on fears of lost federal favour [S5] — proof that political donations are leveraged positions. Brazil quietly gave its government more crime-fighting power [S7]. Competence, it turns out, is less exciting than a gridlock trade.
Require every election-night market rally to be accompanied by a binding reading of the debt clock aloud in Congress.