sharpens teeth and very painful. what do we make of this? i don t want to do commentary on the markets. i m certainly not qualified. they tend to go up and they tend to go down. but the timing is interesting, because as you began this week, they were saying, yes, a very steep election. it s good the president s numbers are going up a little bit. it is good the president is given credit for the economy. voters like the tax cut and people feel better about the economy. does this volatility change that mood? the polls show that people feel more optimistic about the economy under president trump. the difference is really people s expectations. economic performance is largely the same over the past few years, but i think what the president has learned this past week is that there is a real danger in taking personal credit for economic performance. let people give you the credit. they re going to credit you no matter what, they re going to blame you no matter what. but when there are vid