Which is it, Wall Street?

As a 2019 Happy New Year gift, on December 31, 2018, Wall Street decided to announce their 2019 implementation of a new method to fool the gullible public. They have announced the adoption of the practice of Trumpery, which they have seen worked so well prior to now. They can't beat Trumpery, so they have decided to join in the game. 

An example of this means being used to fool everyone in the world comes on the same day as their announcement, when Trumpery today announced a shift from immediate withdrawal of all US forces from Syria, where they did not belong anyway, to a slow withdrawal. Next, we will be told that they won't all be withdrawn, so what was the first announcement's purpose except to fool everyone everywhere, including "Mad Dog" Mattis, who belongs in the pound anyway.

The Wall Street Journal has taken on the nasty task of letting everyone know what to expect from Wall Street in 2019. It posted two reports, shown below, on December 31, 2018, as you can see below the report summaries.