You Don't Say?: War Can

You Don't Say?: War Can Send Shares Higher or Lower

Broadly speaking, United States stocks rise during wartime when traders think events have turned in the country's favor.

This has got to be one of the most obvious bits of "analysis" I have seen in some time. It also strikes me that the headline is a backhanded way of noting that war success is thusfar helping the markets. One guesses that many at the NYT were anti-war, and that puts one in the unfortunate position that to be right by being anti-war, bad things have to happen. If good things happen (stocks go up, Iraqis rejoice at their liberation, other tyrannts and terrorists learn to fear the military and technological might of the US), then what's an anti-warite to do?

In this case it seems to point out that it could have been really bad.

Posted by Steven Taylor at March 22, 2026 07:52 AM | TrackBack