Any tax cut is good.. taxes are by definition confiscations of value creating persons to redistribute to non value creating persons... Government does not create jobs it steals them from the private sector.. bureaucracy does not create value it destroys value it's a different set of incentives...
If I had to make money and I had no choice I would take the risk and sell premium leveraged to the hilt... If I was planning on doing it for more then a week or two. I would go back to planning..
bottom line is there are several ways to trade vix ... options on vix, futures, etf's options on futures, options on eft's ... you can no escape forward risk.. vix is mean reverting in the long run and is priced as such in the forward curve..
Look I am all about gold backed currency. And I mean it.. but Jim Rickards is a crank...He is right about a possible Trump China exchange... But he is not a libertarian like Henry Hazlett Rothbard von Mises or Rockwell.. his book currency wars was very superficial. It never got to the real...
There motto is do no harm.. how farce is that.. if they do believe that then they are as stupid you can get... Intentions aren't what is measured. Hitler intended on bettering humanity. So did Stalin by all the propoganda they put out. Just like fed propoganda.