Trump Plays Dangerous Game Of Chicken With Trade Tariffs
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Easy fact check:
highest in-party support ever, <- don't know what this means
approval rating higher than obama at this point of presidency, -> False
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/04/presidential-approval-numbers/
gdp about to hit 3% per the atlanta fed, -> False
https://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm
QQQ/IWM making fresh highs, -> True
obama care gone, -> Sabotage
lowest unemployment ever for blacks, hispanics and women -> Fudgy
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/08/5765...loyment-rates-for-african-americans-hispanics
Every time I have posted anything Trump has accomplished during his presidency and have asked for critical responses from my leftist friends in the politics forum and I have never received an answer. They hate Trump, and I can't argue against that, but when it comes to what he has actually done so far as president I always get crickets.
Perfectly ok to dislike a person like Trump. I don't think he is in this to be liked. He is in to do a job and he is doing an exceptional job.
As for his past, here is a list of successful businesses he has run. Three or four+ BKs aside, I think it is very impressive and much more impressive than that vast majority of 'talk talk talk' politicians on both sides of the aisle...
3,4 bankruptcies? um, no more like 6. It's true he has never declared personal bankruptcy.
https://www.thoughtco.com/donald-trump-business-bankruptcies-4152019
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rumps-business-empire/?utm_term=.7ed3123c41d8
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timwor...s-actually-a-pretty-good-record/#7c0f35f6486a
The guy gets props for branding himself like a pro athlete and a presidential election upset. However, imho, his skills and strengths are more aligned with the private sector than the public one.
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The stupidty/insanity of Trump is making new highs.
Even his own party speak scandal about the press conference of Trump.
Putin is times smarter then Trump. This will damage the US severely in future.
Trump defends Putin from claims of election interference
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/t...finland-summit-live-updates-today-2018-07-16/
Even his own party speak scandal about the press conference of Trump.
Putin is times smarter then Trump. This will damage the US severely in future.
Trump defends Putin from claims of election interference
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/t...finland-summit-live-updates-today-2018-07-16/
@ironchef this is completely understandable. However, you have to look at the long run if you want to be savvy and frugal at the same time.
A few facts about car buying:
- Buy a used car: Buy a used vehicle that is one/two years old. On average, new cars lose 10-11% of their value the moment they are driven off the lot. By the end of the first year, that same car will lose another 10% on average. In the years immediately after that, the depreciation a vehicle experiences becomes more gradual.
- Sell it before its value drops: Around the sixth year of a vehicle's life, it will experience the second steepest drop in depreciation. Although it happens at different times for different vehicles, it usually occurs between years six and seven. Atlernatively, you can drive it to the ground, but you need to have a Japanese car (think Toyota, Honda) for this, so the maintenance/repair cost does not over-burden you financially.
- Reliability is everything!: Make sure the car is reliable. The savings that one may get via an American car may just end up getting washed down with the low reliability. Take into consideration the inconvenience and time cost and the $3k saving may not be all that. Most reliable cars tend to be Japanese, followed by German and then American. Here is a CR survey on car reliability.
Hope this helps.
in party support - https://qz.com/1295674/donald-trump-now-owns-the-republican-party/
atlanta fed - https://www.frbatlanta.org/cqer/research/gdpnow.aspx
approval rating not false - in your own link he was higher on certain days... and if not for the 90% negative media coverage he'd be much higher than obama.
obamacare is a head wind for small biz. removal is not sabotage.
point is there is a lot good stuff going on, that's reflected in my tax bills and my portfolio.... the haters have to be in denial of all that and keep pushing the narrative.
so you are a foreigner.... that means the 'cry uncle' strategy is working then.... tell your government to come clean on fair trade and all is fine.
Perhaps. I don't like or trust politicians in general, so I am biased for any type of real 'executive' leadership. If you look at interviews Trump gave three decades ago, he was already talking about how other countries were taking advantage of American generosity and how it was destroying/affecting our own native industries. Not sure what the end result will be, but if I am not mistaken, the economic changes he has and is trying to implement will have good economic repercussions well after he has passed away...
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/income-tax-revenues-trump-tax-cuts-economic-growth/
have discussed many times... this bankruptcy narrative is just the fake news media brain washing... yes personal bankruptcy is a big deal... 6 out of that portfolio going bad is about industrial average for commercial real estate... the man is a successful bizman, period.
imo the public sector can't hold candle to the private in terms of efficiency... so bringing some best practice from the private into the public is a good thing.... and in terms of foreign policy, he's certainly doing better than that know-nothing community organizer.
yes, watched several interviews from decades ago... the man is a true patriot and trying to bring the country back to greatness.... very lucky to have this potus.