….Stocks drift lower. Congress to tackle debt ceiling and tax reform. Yellen final hurrah at Jackson Hole. Amazon swallows Whole Foods on Monday. Existing home sales slide. Harvey goes to Texas. Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 08-24-2017   DOW – 28 = 21,783 SPX – 5 = 2438 NAS – 7 = 6271 RUT + 4 = 1373 10 Y + .02 = 2.19% OIL + .24 = 47.64 GOLD – 4.50 = 1286.80   Stocks drifted in an aimless manner today, meandering from positive to negative and back and forth again. The good news is that the market has made it through most of August without freaking out – and there have been a few opportunities for a freak. But the markets have been well behaved and orderly, with a slight downward bias.   Soon, August will end and Congress will return and they will have a plate full of issues including the debt ceiling and tax reform. Trump picked a new fight today with fellow Republicans over the debt ceiling, blaming congressional leaders for not including funding for veterans’ affairs as part of the debt ceiling package. Trump tweeted that debt ceiling approval is now a mess. Earlier in the week, Senate Majority Leader McConnell said the debt ceiling would be raised. Today at a town hall meeting in Washington state, House Speaker Paul Ryan confirmed debt ceiling legislation would be passed in time. And it probably will. It is not complicated. Write a clean bill, no ...