Ken Fisher Looks at Global Politics and Their Impact on Capital Markets

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Ken Fisher: You, it's very common for investors to talk about American politics all the time and you know that.

But increasingly I'm asked about how international elections ones and I actually don't care for the phrase international; I care for the phrase non-American elections impact investors, impact capital markets.

And of course, it's different times to do that differently.

And bigger countries have more impact on markets than littler countries for obvious reasons.

Ken Fisher: But this year, right now, we're seeing a trend that I believe is near monotonic.

It's largely the same almost everywhere, which is country

elections are moving more the same way that America's election last year did, toward gridlock, toward creating governments that don't really have the capability to do so much, while meanwhile people keep talking yak, yak, yak, yak, yaking about governments doing so much.

Ken Fisher: So, if you look, for example, at Israel,

its elections have gridlocked itself almost completely.

And yet as we look ahead, they

probably stagger into more of that.

India, the same thing.

Germany's elections immediately ahead, same thing. In Japan It's a little different, of course, because with the impending technical change of regime, the Conservative Party's been in power officially since I was a boy in the 1950s.

And the fact is there's often a little relief rally when you move to the next head of state, but it typically doesn't last very long.

And that's because typically nothing really basic changes, but again, they are fairly flattened in terms of ability to get much done.

Ken Fisher: And that's largely the hallmark that

we see around the world.

The voters seem to be spread apart in opposition, very much the way they are in America--different

parties, different names, different titles, different structures.

And of course, outside of America you typically don't have the two parties, you typically have a multiparty system.

Ken Fisher: But when you get down to arraying all the parties, you get the same spread with adverse reaction to each other that causes the gridlock, which causes the heightened talk but the diminished action.

And that's actually bullish for investors, whether it's the overseas gridlock or the same way it is with US gridlock and is a continued bullish Sign.

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