Futures Flatten Out After Trump Issues All Caps Threat to Iran

I rarely if ever get writer’s block. When I sit down to write it just flows through me with ease. I can write for hours at times, a free train of thought mostly unbridled and free from restriction. But after I read the following tweet I had to sit here for a while and think about how to describe it. Should I simply state the obvious, this is a batshit tweet by our President who is supposed to be a ‘stable genius?’ Or, should I marvel at the fact the markets are pointing up, in spite of it?

Should I discuss the specter of war with Iran and what a blockage of the Straights of Hormuz would do to Brent?

To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2018

I’d like to get back to not caring about what the President of the United States thinks on a minute by minute basis, if you wouldn’t mind. Truth is, it’s all very well and funny and I do appreciate the notion that half the country are having aneurysms over this Presidency — but even I have my limits and I’m feeling a bit fatigued.

All I really want to do is have good food and drinks, make a lot of coin in the stock market, and hang out near a large body of water, preferably with sand nearby. Is that too much to ask?

WTI is lifting on this “news” and I am the last person you should listen to when it comes to crude. However, I do believe markets will shoot higher today, so perhaps you should prepare for a spate of winship good fellow.