STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 28 April 2023

[Tansy_Gold]

STOCK MARKET WATCH, Friday, 28 April 2023

Previous SMW:
SMW for 27 April 2023




AT THE CLOSING BELL ON 27 April 2023


Dow Jones 33,826.16 +524.29 (1.57%)
S&P 500 4,135.35 +79.36 (1.96%)
Nasdaq 12,142.24 +287.89 (2.43%)

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Market Conditions During Trading Hours:

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DU Economics Group Contributor Megathreads:

Progree's Economic Statistics (with links!)
mahatmakanejeeves' Rail Safety Megathread
mahatmakanejeeves' Oil Train Safety Megathread

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Quote for the Day:

How did a girl named Hillary Rodham, from a conservative midwestern family, come to embody the tensions of second-wave feminism in a twenty-first-century political campaign that became as much a battle of the sexes as a conflict of ideologies? At least one answer can be found in the crucial years between 1969 and 1979, when the women’s movement was flourishing and Hillary Rodham was making life-altering decisions.

Sandra M. Gilbert; Susan Gubar. Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination. W. W. Norton & Company. (c) 2021.

This thread contains opinions and observations. Individuals may post their experiences, inferences and opinions on this thread. However, it should not be construed as advice. It is unethical (and probably illegal) for financial recommendations to be given here.

[Warpy]

1. Yes and no

Women with her brains who were 10-20 years her senior actually spearheaded the second wave of feminism. They'd gone to college, gotten the obligatory "Mrs. Degree" along with the baccalaureate, and had settled into suburban domesticity and had either developed a fondness for pills and gin or had gotten the last kid into first grade and gone to grad school.

Then, armed with master's, PhD, even a few MDs, they went forth and found out they were just dumb, boring housewives and there were precious few job offers. My engineer mother got stonewalled and got her teaching certificate. 2 years later, she was the principal.

Betty Friedan, whose book "The Feminine Mystique" put the boredom and discontent into print, was born in 1921. Gloria Steinem in 1934. Most of the feminist pioneers were born in the 20s and 30s, not in the 40s and 50s. We Boomers just came of age at the time they were upsetting patriarchy's apple cart and embraced their leadership fully, if we had any brains at all. Hillary Clinton had plenty of brains.

We refused to put up with the lousy deal that suited men so well but we didn't start the process, nor will we finish it.

[Tansy_Gold]

2. It's the Yes and No that matter, though

It's always a process.

And even if Friedan and Steinem spearheaded the Second Wave, that implies someone came before them, too.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Now I am really worried, moreso than in 2009

QUoted on Twitter: Jim Cramer: “The collapse of First Republic bank could mark the end of the banking crisis”

[Tansy_Gold]

4. He's never been wrong before. . . .

. . . has he?